Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector was born on the 10^th December 1920; she died on the 9^th December 1977. She was a Brazilian writer said to be one of the most crucial Jewish writer since Franz Kafka. She is known internationally for the innovative novels she wrote and her short stories and she was also a journalist of the country.

Clarice Lispector was born to a Jewish family in Podolia in the Western part of the country, Ukraine; she was brought into Brazil when she was still less than a year old because of the disaster that befell her native land after the World War I.

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Clarice Lispector grew up in the city of Recife in Brazil and it was there that her mother died when she was at the age of 9. Her family moved to the city of Rio de Janeiro when she was at her teen age. When she was still in the law school, Clarice Lispector started with the publishing of her first short stories and journalistic works and she got fame at the age of 23, with the publication of her first novel called Perto do Coração Selvagem, which was written in a pattern and a language that was said to be revolutionary in the country.

Clarice Lispector moved out of the country in the year 1944, after her marriage with the Brazilian diploma and she spent the next 15 years in Europe and in the United States. When she came back to the city of Rio de Janeiro in the year 1959, Clarice Lispector started producing her most famous works and some of them are Laços de Famíliam, A Paixão Segundo G.H. which was a great mystic book, Água Viva, which was arguably the masterpiece of her works.

Clarice Lispector was injured in an accident in the year 1966 and she spent the next 10 years of her life in pain, often writing and publishing novels and stories until she died prematurely in the year 1977.

Awards and honors

• 2013 Best Translated Book Award, shortlist, A Breath of Life: Pulsations^[26]

Bibliography

Novels

Ø  Perto do Coração Selvagem (1943) - Near to the Wild Heart

Ø  O Lustre (1946) - The Chandelier

Ø  A Cidade Sitiada (1949) - The Besieged City

Ø  A Maçã no Escuro (1961) The Apple in the Dark

Ø  A Paixão segundo G.H. (1964) - The Passion According to G.H.

Ø  Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969) - An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

Ø  Água Viva (1973) - The Stream of Life

Ø  A hora da Estrela (1977) - The Hour of the Star

Ø  Um Sopro de Vida (1978) - A Breath of Life

Short story collections

Ø  Alguns contos (1952) - Some Stories

Ø  Laços de família (1960) - Family Ties. Includes works previously published in Alguns Contos.

Ø  A legião estrangeira (1964) - The Foreign Legion

Ø  Felicidade clandestina (1971) - Covert Joy

Ø  A imitação da rosa (1973) - The Imitation of the Rose. Includes previously published material.

Ø  A via crucis do corpo (1974) - The Via Crucis of the Body

Ø  Onde estivestes de noite (1974) - Where You Were at Night

Ø  Para não esquecer (1978) - Not to Forget

Ø  A bela e a fera (1979) - Beauty and the Beast

Children's Literature

Ø  O Mistério do Coelho Pensante (1967) - The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit

Ø  A mulher que matou os peixes (1968) - The Woman Who Killed the Fish

Ø  A Vida Íntima de Laura (1974) - Laura's Intimate Life

Ø  Quase de verdade (1978) - Almost True

Ø  Como nasceram as estrelas: Doze lendas brasileiras (1987) - How the Stars were Born: Twelve Brazilian Legends

Journalism and other shorter writings

Ø  A Descoberta do Mundo (1984) - The Discovery of the World (named Selected Chronicas in the English version). Lispector's newspaper columns in the Jornal do Brasil.

Ø  Visão do esplendor (1975) - Vision of Splendor

Ø  De corpo inteiro (1975) - With the Whole Body. Lispector's interviews with famous personalities.

Ø  Aprendendo a viver (2004) – Learning to Live. A selection of columns from The Discovery of the World.

Ø  Outros escritos (2005) – Other Writings. Diverse texts including interviews and stories.

Ø  Correio feminino (2006) – Ladies' Mail. Selection of Lispector's texts, written pseudonymously, for Brazilian women's pages.

Ø  Entrevistas (2007) – Interviews

Correspondence

Ø  Cartas perto do coração (2001) - Letters near the Heart. Letters exchanged with Fernando Sabino.

Ø  Correspondências (2002) - Correspondence

Ø  Minhas queridas (2007) – My dears. Letters exchanged with her sisters Elisa Lispector and Tania Lispector Kaufmann.