Benjamin Moser

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Benjamin Moser wif de manuscript of Cwarice Lispector's Compwete Stories

Benjamin Moser (September 14, 1976) is an American writer and transwator, best known for his work invowving Cwarice Lispector and Susan Sontag.[1]


Born in Houston, Moser attended high schoow in Texas and France before graduating from Brown University wif a degree in History. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Utrecht University.

Moser served as New Books Cowumnist for Harper's Magazine in 2009,[2] has pubwished articwes in The New York Review of Books, and is de audor of a biography of de Braziwian writer Cwarice Lispector titwed Why This Worwd.[3]

In 2013, he was named de audorized biographer of de American writer Susan Sontag.[4] The book, "Sontag: Her Life and Work," wiww be pubwished in de faww of 2019.[5]

He has pubwished transwations from de Dutch, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.

He wives in Utrecht wif his partner Ardur Japin, a Dutch writer.[6] He is Jewish, wif German-Jewish origins. His sister is de audor and powitician Laura Moser.

Awards and honors[edit]


  • Benjamin Moser, Why This Worwd: A Biography of Cwarice Lispector, Oxford University Press (2009)/Haus Pubwishing Limited, ISBN 978-0-19-538556-4 (US), 978-1906598426 (UK)
  • Benjamin Moser, Cwarice, uma biografia, Cosac Naify (2009).


  • Benjamin Moser (Feb 2009). "Art is : de audacity of stiww wife". Harper's. 318 (1905): 75–80, 82. Reviews Quentin Buvewot. The stiww wifes of Adriaen Coorte, 1683-1707. Waanders.


  1. ^ "Great Homes and Destinations". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  2. ^ "Harper's Magazine Names Benjamin Moser as New Books Cowumnist". Reuters. 2009-01-08. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  3. ^ "Books Review". The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-08-13.
  4. ^ "Benjamin Moser to Write Sontag Biography". New York Times. 2013-02-27. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  5. ^ "Sontag: Her Life and Work". Harper Cowwins Pubwishers. 2019-03-02. Retrieved 2019-03-02.
  6. ^ "HP/De Tijd". HP/De Tijd. Retrieved 2018-07-20.
  7. ^ "Nationaw Book Critics Circwe Announces Finawists for Pubwishing Year 2014". Nationaw Book Critics Circwe. January 19, 2015. Retrieved January 29, 2015.
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