Clarice Lispector

Writing • 1920-12-10 • Chechelnyk, Ukraine

Clarice Lispector (born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (Ukrainian: Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор; Yiddish: חיה פּינקאַסיװנאַ ליספּעקטאָר) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her innovative, idiosyncratic works explore a variety of narrative styles with themes of intimacy and introspection, and have subsequently been internationally acclaimed. Born to a Jewish family in Podolia in Central Ukraine, as an infant she moved to Brazil with her family, amidst the disasters engulfing her native land following the First World War.