Creative Conversations on Clarice Lispector

Women's History Month

Author and academic Elizabeth Mikesch shares the work of Ukrainian-born Brazilian author Clarice Lispector, will read from Lispector's work, and lead participants in a creative writing activity.

"Clarice Lispector was born in 1920 to a Jewish family in western Ukraine. As a result of the anti-Semitic violence they endured, the family fled to Brazil in 1922, and Clarice Lispector grew up in Recife. Following the death of her mother when Clarice was nine, she moved to Rio de Janeiro with her father and two sisters, and 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, Clarice Lispector has earned universal recognition as Brazil’s greatest modern writer." - New Directions books.

"Elizabeth Mikesch is the author of Niceties: Aural Ardor, Pardon Me (Calamari). Her writing has appeared in BOMB, The Believer, Unsaid, Sleepingfish, and Caketrain. She wrote a minivan opera for Clarice Lispector, How Can I Speak Except Timidly Like This? In 2017, she was an artist-in-residence at Mass MoCA for an interdisciplinary project connected to her manuscript, The Bottom. She has taught creative writing and composition at Smith College, UMass Amherst, the Juniper Institute for Young Writers, and InsideOut Literary Arts Project." - Smith College

This book and library program is appropriate for Teens, Adults, and Older Adults.

Learn more about the author here, and by visiting this link to our MCPL catalog

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