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Clarice Lispector (Author)Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
A bewitching, jewel-like book unlike anything in modern literature. <i>Agua Viva </i>baffles and inspires me ... Each word of the book lands with the sweet force of a blade ... crystalline
- Carlos Valladares, Gagosian Quarterly
An emblematic twentieth-century artist who belongs in the same pantheon as Kafka and Joyce
Edmund White
Lispector stands at the pinnacle of Brazil's impressive literary achievement
Washington Post Book World
One of the very great writers of the last century
Guardian
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Clarice Lispector (Author)Clarice Lispector was a Brazilian novelist and short-story writer. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. She was born in the Ukraine in 1920, but in the aftermath of World War I and the Russian Civil War, the family fled to Romania and eventually Brazil. She published her first novel, Near to the Wildheart, in 1943, when she was just twenty-three, and the next year was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.