WRITER

Clarice Lispector

1920 - 1977

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Clarice Lispector ([klaˈɾisi lisˈpɛktoʁ], born Chaya Pinkhasivna Lispector (Ukrainian: Хая Пінкасівна Ліспектор; Yiddish: חיה פּינקאַסיװנאַ ליספּעקטאָר) December 10, 1920 – December 9, 1977) was a Ukrainian-born Brazilian novelist and short story writer. Her distinctive and innovative works delve into diverse narrative forms, weaving themes of intimacy and introspection, earning her subsequent international acclaim. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clarice Lispector has received more than 1,103,656 page views. Her biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Clarice Lispector is the 637th most popular writer (up from 680th in 2019), the 90th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 85th in 2019) and the 18th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

Clarice Lispector is most famous for her novel, "The Hour of the Star."

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 46

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Clarice Lispector ranks 637 out of 7,302. Before her are Witold Gombrowicz, Raymond Queneau, Edward Bernays, Curzio Malaparte, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and Saul Bellow. After her are Daphne du Maurier, William Makepeace Thackeray, Walther von der Vogelweide, Ivan Franko, Irène Némirovsky, and Kōbō Abe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Clarice Lispector ranks 31. Before her are Helmut Newton, Nicolaas Bloembergen, Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, François Jacob, Zecharia Sitchin, and Fritz Walter. After her are Montgomery Clift, Walter Matthau, Douglass North, Sergei Bondarchuk, John Demjanjuk, and Alberto Sordi. Among people deceased in 1977, Clarice Lispector ranks 21. Before her are Alexey Stakhanov, Kurt Schuschnigg, Anaïs Nin, Ernst Bloch, Joan Crawford, and Princess Charlotte, Duchess of Valentinois. After her are Andreas Baader, Archibald Hill, Howard Hawks, Bing Crosby, Alexander Luria, and Henri-Georges Clouzot.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Clarice Lispector ranks 90 out of 1,365. Before her are Josaphat Kuntsevych (1580), Nikolai Podgorny (1903), Bruno Schulz (1892), Anton Makarenko (1888), Andrzej Żuławski (1940), and Karl Radek (1885). After her are Ignacy Jan Paderewski (1860), Oleg Blokhin (1952), Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Trofim Lysenko (1898), and Edward Rydz-Śmigły (1886).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Clarice Lispector ranks 18. Before her are Lesya Ukrainka (1871), Ze'ev Jabotinsky (1880), Ilya Ehrenburg (1891), Isaac Babel (1894), Bruno Schulz (1892), and Anton Makarenko (1888). After her are Ivan Franko (1856), Irène Némirovsky (1903), Nestor the Chronicler (1056), Gregory Skovoroda (1722), Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904), and Nikolay Nekrasov (1821).

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