Clarice Lispector (December 10, 1920 - December 9, 1977) was a Brazilian writer. December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 3 - Babe Ruth is traded by the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees for $125,000, the largest sum ever paid for a player at that time. ... December 9 is the 343rd day (344th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

Considered one of the greatest Brazilian prose writers of the twentieth century, Clarice Lispector was born in Chechelnyk, a shtetl in Ukraine, and moved to Brazil when she was two years old. Her family first settled in Maceió, Alagoas, where her mother had family relations, and later moved to Recife, Pernambuco. After her mother's death, the family moved again, to Rio de Janeiro, where she studied law and married her classmate Maury Gurgel Valente. After he entered the diplomatic corps she moved to Europe, living in Naples, Berne, Torquay (England), and Washington. She returned to Brazil in 1959. Maceió, Alagoas (Brazil). ... Flag of Alagoas See other Brazilian States Capital Maceió Largest City Maceió Area 27 818 km² Population   - Total   - Density 2 822 621 101. ... Boa Viagem district. ... Flag of Pernambuco See other Brazilian States Capital Recife Largest City Recife Area 98,281 km² Population   - Total   - Density 7,918,344 80. ... Flag Seal Location Location of Rio de Janeiro Coordinates , Government Country Region State Brazil Southeast Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maia (PFL) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,260 km² Population     City (2005) 5,613,000 [1]     Density   4. ...

Lispector was fluent in Yiddish, English, French and also had various levels of ability and knowledge in other languages, particularly Italian and German. In later life, she supported herself by translating books from English and French. Yiddish (Yid. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Her family was Jewish and spoke Yiddish in the home. Some scholars who have studied her books have found a great influence of the Jewish thought in some of her stories. In 1944 she published her first novel Perto do Coração Selvagem, translated into English as "Near to the Wild Heart." When the novel was published, many claimed that her stream-of-consciousness writing style was heavily influenced by Virginia Woolf or James Joyce, but she had read neither of these authors. This novel, like all of her subsequent works, was marked by an intense focus on interior emotional states. Yiddish (Yid. ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... Virginia Woolf (née Stephen) (25 January 1882 – 28 March 1941) is by reputation one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century. ... James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (Irish name Séamas Seoighe; 2 February 1882 – 13 January 1941) was an expatriate Irish writer and poet, widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. ...

Lispector died of cancer in 1977 just one day before her 57th birthday and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery of Cajú, in Rio de Janeiro. For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Flag Seal Location Location of Rio de Janeiro Coordinates , Government Country Region State Brazil Southeast Rio de Janeiro Mayor Cesar Maia (PFL) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,260 km² Population     City (2005) 5,613,000 [1]     Density   4. ...

Her last novel is A Hora da Estrela, translated as The Hour of The Star, where the life of Macabéa, a poor woman living in Rio de Janeiro, is described by a narrator called Rodrigo S.M., a fictional writer. Written near the end of her life, A Hora da Estrela diverged from the themes and style of most of her work, instead directly and explicitly focusing on poverty and marginality in Brazil.

Her sister Elisa Lispector (born Savran, Ukraine, July 24, 1911--died Rio de Janeiro, January 6, 1989) was also a respected Brazilian novelist.

Bibliography

• Perto do Coração Selvagem (1944) - Near the Wild Heart
• O Lustre (1946)
• A Cidade Sitiada (1949)
• Alguns Contos (1952)
• Laços de Família (1960) - Family Ties
• A Maçã no Escuro (1961)
• A Legião Estrangeira (1964) - Foreign Legion
• A Paixão segundo G.H. (1964) - The Passion According to G.H.
• O Mistério do Coelho Pensante (1967)
• A mulher que matou os peixes (1968)
• Uma Aprendizagem ou O Livro dos Prazeres (1969)
• Felicidade Clandestina (1971)
• A imitação da rosa (1973)
• Água Viva (1973) - The Stream of Life
• A Vida Íntima de Laura (1974)
• A Via-crucis do Corpo (1974)
• Onde estivestes de Noite (1974)
• A hora da Estrela (1977) - The Hour of the Star
• Para não Esquecer (1978)
• Quase de Verdade (1978)
• Um Sopro de Vida (1978)
• A Bela e a Fera (1979)
• A Descoberta do Mundo (1984)
• Como Nasceram as Estrelas (1987)
• Cartas perto do Coração (2001) (letters exchanged with Fernando Sabino)
• Correspondências (2002)

A Paixão segundo G.H., translated into English as , is a 1964 novel by Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

External link

• Biography (in Portuguese)