Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector was born on 10 December 1920 in Chechelnyk, in Ukraine, to a Jewish family fleeing pogroms, and reached Brazil in 1922. Brought up in Maceió and then Recife, she settled in Rio with her family and studied law there. In 1943 she married the diplomat Maury Gurgel Valente, whom she followed to Italy, Switzerland, England and the United States, before returning to Rio in 1959 after their separation. Seriously burned in 1966 in a fire, after falling asleep with a lit cigarette, she died in Rio on 9 December 1977.

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• NovelThe Hour of the StarA hora da estrelaClarice Lispector · 1977Literature