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Clarice Lispector
Clarice Lispector was a Ukrainian-born 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. She is known for works such as Near to the Wild Heart (1943) and The Hour of the Star (1977).
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culture · Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer (1920–1977) · screenwriter · translator · journalist · novelist · painter · writer · children's writer · also Clarice Lispector, Helen Palmer, Teresa Quadros, Lispector
Born 10 December 1920 · Died 9 December 1977 · Q235955
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2022· 1 entry
2018· 1 entry
A Google Doodle was created to celebrate her 98th birthday
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2015· 3 entries
NPR: The Blazing World Of Clarice Lispector, In 'Complete Stories'
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Wall Street Journal: Read a Short Story From ‘Complete Stories’ by Clarice Lispector
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The Boston Globe: ‘The Complete Stories’ of Clarice Lispector
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2012· 1 entry
The Boston Globe: 4 novels by Clarice Lispector
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2011· 2 entries
Publishers Weekly: New Directions Resurrects Clarice Lispector with New Translations
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Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2011).
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2009· 1 entry
The American writer Benjamin Moser published Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector
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1992· 1 entry
By Giovanni Pontiero and in 2011 by Benjamin Moser
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1990· 1 entry
By Giovanni Pontiero and in 2012 by Alison Entrekin
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1989· 1 entry
“Language: on Clarice Lispector”
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1988· 1 entry
By Ronald Sousa and in 2012 by Idra Novey
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1978· 3 entries
Awarded Prêmio Jabuti (1978).
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As The Stream of Life, with a new translation by Stefan Tobler published in 2012
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By Elizabeth Lowe and Earl Fitz as The Stream of Life; translated in 2012 by Stefan Tobler retaining original title
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1977· 5 entries
At the Jewish Cemetery of Caju, Rio de Janeiro
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Died 1977-12-09.
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“Suponho que me entender não é uma questão de inteligência e sim de sentir, de entrar em contato. Ou toca, ou não toca!”
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“Por que escrevo? Antes de tudo porque captei o espírito da língua e assim às vezes a forma é que faz conteúdo. [...] Não, não é fácil escrever. É duro como quebrar rochas. Mas voam faíscas e lascas como aços espelhados.”
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“Passei a minha vida tentando corrigir os erros que cometi na minha ânsia de acertar. Ao tentar corrigir um erro, eu cometia outro. Sou uma culpada inocente.”
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1976· 1 entry
For her contributions to Brazilian literature
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1975· 1 entry
Was invited to the First World Congress of Sorcery in Bogotá, an event which garnered wide press coverage and increased her notoriety
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1974· 1 entry
Lispector published two books of stories, Onde estivestes de noite (Where Were You at Night)—which focuses in part on the lives of aging women—and A via crucis do corpo (The Via Crucis of the Body)
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1973· 1 entry
It was instantly acclaimed as a masterpiece
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1971· 1 entry
Lispector published another book of stories, Felicidade clandestina (Covert Joy), several of which hearkened back to memories of her childhood in Recife
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1968· 1 entry
Lispector participated in the political demonstrations against Brazil's hardening military dictatorship, and also published two books: her second work for children, A Mulher que matou os peixes (The Woman Who Killed the
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1967· 1 entry
By Gregory Rabassa and in 2023 by Benjamin Moser
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1966· 2 entries
Lispector suffered a serious accident in her apartment
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Spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories, including the celebrated Água Viva, until her premature death in 1977
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1964· 1 entry
Lispector published one of her most shocking and famous books, A paixão segundo G
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1962· 1 entry
The work was awarded the Carmen Dolores Barbosa Prize for the best novel of the previous year
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1961· 2 entries
Awarded Prêmio Jabuti (1961).
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By the same house that had published Family Ties, the Livraria Francisco Alves in São Paulo
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1959· 1 entry
Published the stories of Family Ties (Laços de Família) and the novel The Passion According to G
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1956· 1 entry
But was repeatedly rejected by publishers, to Lispector's despair
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1953· 1 entry
Lispector gave birth to her second son, Paulo
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1952· 1 entry
Back in Rio, where the family would stay about a year, Lispector published a short volume of six stories called Alguns contos (Some Stories) in a small edition sponsored by the Ministry of Education and Health
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1949· 2 entries
“Its hermeticism has the texture of the hermeticism of dreams. May someone find the key.”
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And spending almost a year in Rio, Lispector and Gurgel traveled to Torquay, Devon, where he was a delegate to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
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1948· 1 entry
And in the city she wrote her third novel, A cidade sitiada (The Besieged City, 1946)
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1946· 1 entry
Lispector and Gurgel returned to Europe in April 1946, where he was posted to the embassy in Bern, Switzerland
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1944· 2 entries
Lispector left Brazil for the first time since she had arrived as a child, destined for Naples, where Gurgel was posted to the Brazilian Consulate
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Following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States
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1940· 1 entry
As a result of a botched gallbladder operation, her father died, aged 55
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1937· 1 entry
Entered the Law School of the University of Brazil, then one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in the country
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1935· 1 entry
Pedro Lispector decided to move with his daughters to the then-capital, Rio de Janeiro, where he hoped to find more economic opportunity and also to find Jewish husbands for his daughters
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1932· 1 entry
Gained admission to the Ginásio Pernambucano, then the most prestigious secondary school in the state
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1920· 1 entry
Born 1920-12-10.
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