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Benjamin Moser

Author • Foreword • Editorb. 1976-09-14
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Benjamin Moser is an American writer and translator, born in Houston, Texas, in 1976. He wrote Why This World, a biography of Clarice Lispector (2009), and Sontag: Her Life and Work (2019), which won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Biography. His other books include The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters (2023) and Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History (2026). He translates from Portuguese and French, and is general editor of New Directions' new translations of Lispector's complete works, several of which he translated himself.

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