Clarice_Lispector Clarice Lispector (December 10 1920 - December 9 1977) was a Brazilian writer. Acclaimed internationally for her innovative novels and short stories, she was also a journalist and a translator. A legendary figure in Brazil, renowned for her uncommon and unique writing style, her great personal beauty —— the American translator Gregory Rabassa recalled being "flabbergasted to meet that rare person who looked like Marlene Dietrich and wrote like Virginia Woolf," —— and her eccentric personality, Clarice is now considered (with João Guimarães Rosa) one of the two most outstanding Brazilian prose writers of the twentieth century.