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Lispector, Clarice (klâr`ĭs lēspĕk`tər), 1925–77, Brazilian author, b. Ukraine. An editor, translator, newspaper columnist, and law student as well as fiction writer, Lispector traveled widely and was influenced by Virginia Woolf Woolf, Virginia (Stephen), 1882–1941, English novelist and essayist; daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen . A successful innovator in the form of the novel, she is considered a significant force in 20th-century fiction.
..... Click the link for more information. and Katharine Mansfield Mansfield, Katherine, 1888–1923, British author, b. New Zealand, regarded as one of the masters of the short story. Her original name was Kathleen Beauchamp. A talented cellist, she did not turn to literature until 1908.
..... Click the link for more information. . Many of her nine novels, e.g., The Apple in the Dark (1961, tr. 1967) and The Hour of the Star (1977, tr. 1986), and eight short-story collections, e.g., Family Ties (1960, tr. 1972) and Soulstorm (1989), focus on human isolation and moral uncertainty.

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See her Selected Crónicas (tr. 1996); studies by E. E. Fitz (1985) and H. Cixous (1990).