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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 Graca Aranha Prize for the best first novel. She died in 1977, shortly after the publication of her final novel, The Hour of the Star.
The premier Latin American woman prose writer of this century * The New York Times Book Review * One of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers -- Orhan Pamuk Brilliant ... Lispector should be on the shelf with Kafka and Joyce * Los Angeles Times *
