Clarice Lispector was born in Tchetchelnik, Ukraine, on December 10th, 1920, having then left for Brazil in March 1922. After a childhood spent in Recife, she moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1937, where she graduated in Law. Still very young, Clarice Lispector debuted in literature with the novel Perto do Coração Selvagem (Close to the wild heart), 1943, which received a warm welcome from critics and was awarded the Graça Aranha Prize. In 1944, newly married to a diplomat, she travelled to Naples, where she served in a hospital during the final months of World War II. After lengthy stays in Switzerland and the United States, she returned to Rio de Janeiro. Clarice Lispector began collaborating with the press in 1942 and, throughout her lifetime, she never really lost touch with journalism. She worked for ‘Agência Nacional’ (National Agency) and the newspapers ‘A Noite’ and ‘Diário da Noite’. She was a columnist for ‘Correio da Manhã’ and conducted several interviews for the magazine ‘Manchete’. The chronicles that she signed for ‘Jornal do Brasil’, between 1967 and 1973, were then compiled into the volume ‘A Descoberta do Mundo’ (Discovering the World). Among her most important works are the short story collections ‘A Legião Estrangeira’ (The Foreign Legion), 1964, and ‘Laços de Familia’ (Family Ties), 1972, and the novels ‘A Paixão Segundo G.H.’ (Passion according to G.H.), 1964, and ‘A Hora da Estrela’ (The Hour of the Star), 1977. Clarice Lispector died in Rio de Janeiro on December 9th, 1977.

Mariana Valente

Born in 1987 in Rio de Janeiro, Mariana Valente, granddaughter of Clarice Lispector, is a designer and artist. She found her graphical language in the collage technique. Her digital and manual works, developed in partnerships, editorial illustrations and interventions, bring together aesthetics and meaning, her favourite topics being female memory and subjectivity. Her project is to proceed with experimentation, using different media.