Clarice Lispector

Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. Fleeing anti-Semitic violence, the family emigrated to Brazil in 1922. She went on to study law. With her husband, who worked for the foreign service, she lived in Italy, Switzerland, England, and the United States, until they separated and she returned to Rio in 1959; she died there in 1977. Since her death, Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil’s greatest modern writer.