Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser was born in Houston, Texas, and lives in Utrecht. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, and for Sontag: Her Life and Work, he won the Pulitzer Prize.

Benjamin Moser

Benjamin Moser was born in Houston, Texas, and lives in Utrecht. He is the author of Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector, and for Sontag: Her Life and Work, he won the Pulitzer Prize.

Books by Benjamin Moser

  • A Breath of Life

    Clarice Lispector, Johnny Lorenz, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2012

    A mystical dialogue between a male author and his creation, this posthumous work has never before been translated, and is a book of particular beauty and strangeness.
  • Near to the Wild Heart

    Clarice Lispector, Alison Entrekin, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2012

    This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.
  • Água Viva

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2012

    Lispector at her most philosophically radical.
  • The Chandelier

    Clarice Lispector, Magdalena Edwards, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2019

    In paperback, Clarice Lispector’s explosive and surprising second novel
  • The Besieged City

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Johnny Lorenz

    E Book, 2019

    Seven decades after its original publication, Clarice Lispector’s third novel—the story of a girl and the city her gaze reveals—is in English at last
  • Complete Stories

    Clarice Lispector, Katrina Dodson, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2018

    One of the most phenomenally acclaimed and successful books of recent years is now available as a paperback—with three just-discovered stories
  • An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Sheila Heti, Benjamin Moser

    E Book, 2022

    Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer
  • The Hour of the Star: 100th Anniversary Edition

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser, Paulo Gurgel Valente, Colm Tóibín

    E Book, 2020

    Clarice Lispector’s best-selling masterpiece—“her finest book” (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her son...
  • The Woman Who Killed the Fish

    Clarice Lispector, Benjamin Moser

    Hardback, 2022

    Four beguiling tales for children of all ages.

    A surprising new facet of Clarice Lispector’s genius

  • An Apprenticeship or The Book of Pleasures

    Clarice Lispector, Stefan Tobler, Sheila Heti, Benjamin Moser

    Paperback, 2022

    Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writer