Editing Clarice Lispector (section)

{{short description|Ukrainian-born Brazilian writer (1920 – 1977)}}
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{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] -->
| name             = Clarice Lispector
| image            = Clarice Lispector (cropped).jpg
| imagesize        = 220px
| caption          = Lispector in 1969
| pseudonym        = Helen Palmer, Teresa Quadros
| birth_name       = Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector
| birth_date       = {{birth date|1920|12|10|mf=y}}
| birth_place      = [[Chechelnyk]], [[Ukrainian People's Republic]]
| death_date       = {{death date and age|1977|12|9|1920|12|10|mf=y}}
| death_place      = [[Rio de Janeiro]], Brazil
| occupation       = Writer
| nationality      = Brazilian
| spouse           = {{marriage|Maury Gurgel Valente|1943|1959|end= divorce}}
| children         = 2
| relatives        = [[Elisa Lispector]] (sister)
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| notable_works    = {{Unbulleted list|''[[Near to the Wild Heart]]'' (1943)|''[[The Passion According to G.H.]]'' (1964)|''[[Family Ties (short story collection)|Family Ties]]'' (1960)|''[[The Hour of the Star]]'' (1977)}}
| signature        = Clarice-Lispector-Unterschrift.png
| genre            = {{Cslist|Novel|short story}}
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'''Clarice Lispector''' ({{IPAc-pt|c|l|a|'|r|i|c|e|-|l|i|s|'|p|E|c|t|o|r|lang=br}}, born '''Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector''' ({{langx|uk|Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор}}; {{Langx|yi|חיה פּינקאַסיװנאַ ליספּעקטאָר}}) December 10, 1920{{spaced ndash}}December 9, 1977) was a [[Ukrainians|Ukrainian]]-born Brazilian novelist and [[short story writer]]. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving themes of intimacy and introspection, earning her subsequent international acclaim. Born to a Jewish family in [[Podolia]] in Western Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the [[Pogroms during the Russian Civil War|pogroms committed during the Russian Civil War]].

Lispector grew up in [[Recife]], the capital of the northeastern state of [[Pernambuco]], where her mother died when she was nine. The family moved to [[Rio de Janeiro]] when she was in her teens. While in law school in Rio, she began publishing her first journalistic work and short stories, catapulting to fame at the age of 23 with the publication of her first novel, ''[[Near to the Wild Heart]]'' (''Perto do Coração Selvagem''), written as an [[interior monologue]] in a style and language that was considered revolutionary in Brazil.

Lispector left Brazil in 1944 following her marriage to a Brazilian diplomat, and spent the next decade and a half in Europe and the United States. After returning to Rio de Janeiro in 1959, she published the stories of ''[[Family Ties (story collection)|Family Ties]]'' (''Laços de Família'') and the novel ''[[The Passion According to G.H.]]'' (''A Paixão Segundo G.H.''). Injured in an accident in 1966, she spent the last decade of her life in frequent pain, steadily writing and publishing novels and stories, including ''[[Água Viva (novel)|Água Viva]]'', until her premature death in 1977.

Lispector has been the subject of numerous books, and references to her and her work are common in Brazilian literature and music. Several of her works have been turned into films. In 2009, the American writer [[Benjamin Moser]] published ''[[Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector]].'' Since that publication, her works have been the object of an extensive project of retranslation, published by [[New Directions Publishing]] and [[Penguin Modern Classics]], the first Brazilian to enter that prestigious series. Moser, who is also the editor of her anthology ''The Complete Stories'' (2015), describes Lispector as the most important Jewish writer in the world since [[Franz Kafka]].<ref>Ha, T. H., [https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/08/clarice-lispector/402011/ "Clarice Lispector's Magical Prose"], ''[[The Atlantic]]'', August 21, 2015.</ref>