Moser, Benjamin
General editor of the new translations of Clarice Lispector's complete works at New Directions,
BENJAMIN MOSER is the author of
Why This World: The Biography of Clarice Lispector, and
Sontag: Her Life and Work, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. His new book,
The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters, will be published in October.
Lorenz, Johnny
Johnny Lorenz, son of Brazilian immigrants to the United States, was born in 1972. He received his doctorate in English from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000, and he is an associate professor at Montclair State University. In 2013, he was a finalist for Best Translated Book for his translation of
A Breath of Life by Clarice Lispector (New Directions). His book of original poems,
Education by Windows, was published in 2018 by Poets & Traitors Press; it includes his translations of the poet Mario Quintana, for which he received a Fulbright grant. He has published articles on Brazilian literature in journals such as
Luso-Brazilian Review and
Modern Fiction Studies. He is also the translator of Lispector's
The Besieged City (New Directions).
Lispector, Clarice
Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the greatest Brazilian writer of the twentieth century, has been called "astounding" (Rachel Kushner), "a penetrating genius" (Donna Seaman,
Booklist), and "one of the twentieth century's most mysterious writers" (Orhan Pamuk).
