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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No. She was born in Chechelnyk in Ukraine and arrived in Brazil as an infant in 1922.
No. Clarice Lispector was born Chaya Lispector in Chechelnyk, Podolia, a rural shtetl in the Ukrainian SSR, the youngest of three daughters of Pinkhas and Mania Lispector. Her family suffered in the pogroms that followed the collapse of the Russian Empire, left in the winter of 1921, fled to Romania and then sailed from Hamburg to Brazil, arriving in the early months of 1922, when Clarice was little more than one year old. The family changed their names on arrival, and Chaya became Clarice. She applied for citizenship the moment she turned 21 and was naturalised on January 12, 1943.
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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.
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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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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...is a novel by Clarice Lispector published in 1977, shortly before the author's death.
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