WRITER

Clarice Lispector

1920 - 1977

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Clarice Lispector ([klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ], born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (Ukrainian: Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор; Yiddish: חיה פּינקאַסיװנאַ ליספּעקטאָר) December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a 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 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Clarice Lispector is the 711th most popular writer (down from 636th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 90th in 2019) and the 21st most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Clarice Lispector is most famous for her novel, "The Hour of the Star."

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Clarice Lispector ranks 711 out of 7,302. Before her are Lorenzo Da Ponte, Georg Büchner, Multatuli, Cassiodorus, Patrick White, and Abdulrazak Gurnah. After her are Odysseas Elytis, Epicharmus of Kos, William F. Buckley Jr., John Irving, Mihai Eminescu, and Alejo Carpentier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Clarice Lispector ranks 38. Before her are Fritz Walter, Frank Sheeran, Edmond H. Fischer, Helmut Newton, Zecharia Sitchin, and Sun Myung Moon. After her are Peter D. Mitchell, C. R. Rao, Mario Beccaria, John Demjanjuk, Walter Matthau, and Prem Tinsulanonda. Among people deceased in 1977, Clarice Lispector ranks 27. Before her are Alexey Stakhanov, Anaïs Nin, Archibald Hill, Howard Hawks, Joan Crawford, and Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois. After her are Bing Crosby, Andreas Baader, James Jones, Ali Shariati, Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Alexander Luria.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Clarice Lispector ranks 95 out of 1,365. Before her are Oleg Blokhin (1952), Lev Shestov (1866), Anacharsis (-700), Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (1884), Karl Radek (1885), and Daniel of Galicia (1201). After her are Andriy Shevchenko (1976), Reinhold Glière (1874), Valeriy Lobanovskyi (1939), John Demjanjuk (1920), Alexander Archipenko (1887), and Andrey Yeryomenko (1892).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Clarice Lispector ranks 21. Before her are Vasily Grossman (1905), Anton Makarenko (1888), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), and Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880). After her are Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), Władysław Tarnowski (1836), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Nikolay Nekrasov (1821), Juliusz Słowacki (1809), and Hayim Nahman Bialik (1873).

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