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Clarice Lispector

Iberian and Latin American Literature

Clarice Lispector, born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector, was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer whose distinctive and innovative works, exploring diverse narrative forms and themes of intimacy and introspection, earned her international acclaim. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in western Ukraine, she moved to Brazil as an infant amid pogroms committed during the Russian Civil War, and she catapulted to fame at twenty three with her first novel, Near to the Wild Heart (1943), written as an interior monologue in a style considered revolutionary in Brazil. She is also known for The Hour of the Star (1977), and the American writer Benjamin Moser, editor of her anthology The Complete Stories, has described her as the most important Jewish writer in the world since Franz Kafka. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1920 1
Birth Date
1920-12-10 1
Death Year
1977 1
Award
Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil), 2011. 1
Award
Prêmio Jabuti, 1961. 1
Classification
Original Language
English 1
Original Language
Spanish 1
Original Language
French 1
Original Language
Portuguese 1
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Source The Hour of the Star (Wikipedia)
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1. Clarice Lispector (Wikipedia)
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    Clarice Lispector ... was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer.
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    Clarice Lispector ([klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ]; née Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920, December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer.
  • Lead paragraph
    Clarice Lispector (Portuguese: [klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ]; née Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920 - December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works, which explore diverse narrative forms and themes of intimacy and introspection, have earned her international acclaim.
  • Award: Prêmio Jabuti
    Clarice Lispector (Portuguese: [klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ]; née Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920, December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works, which explore diverse narrative forms and themes of intimacy and introspection, have earned her international acclaim.
  • Award: Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil)
    Clarice Lispector (Portuguese: [klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ]; née Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector; December 10, 1920, December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works, which explore diverse narrative forms and themes of intimacy and introspection, have earned her international acclaim.
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The Hour of the Star (Wikipedia)
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The Hour of the Star...is a novel by Clarice Lispector published in 1977, shortly before the author's death.
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