Clarice Lispector
This phenomenal Brazilian was actually Ukrainian, you know? Clarice Lispector was born in Tchetchelnik, Ukraine, and came to Brazil when she was less than a year old.
Clarice studied Law, worked as a copywriter and was, above all, passionate about writing. Author of novels, short stories and chronicles, Clarice is one of the greatest names in Brazilian literature of all time. Highly awarded in life, her name was already known among her contemporaries.At a young age, the writer married a classmate turned diplomat and quickly became a citizen of the world having lived in a number of countries. With him (Maury Gurgel Valente) she had two children, but ended up separating. After the divorce she continued to write—and a lot—for the newspaper, in addition to the literary books she regularly published.
Artist: Eleonore de Montesquiou
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Artist
Eleonore de Montesquiou (1979) is an Estonian-French artist, whose films focus on the relationship between people’s life stories and their official history, as well as on personal and national identity. Her works take a documentative approach, expressed through film, drawing and text. Montesquiou is a socially sensitive artist, using empiric research methods like interview, observation and archival materials.
One of Montesquiou’s first exhibitions, “My home is my castle” (Tallinn Art Hall Gallery, 2002) focused on telling stories about home. The artist interviewed people of various ages living in Tallinn, asking them to talk about the history and current usage of their language in their mother tongue, and later presented these stories in a video, and in a booklet.