Clarice Cliff sample in the 1930s) for a staggering £3000. In May 2009 an eighteen-inch charger in the "May Avenue" pattern sold for £20,500 at Fielding's auctioneers. On 2 August 2009 Will Farmer of the BBC "Antiques Roadshow" and members of the original Clarice Cliff Collectors Club unveiled three plaques commemorating Clarice Cliff's life and work in the Potteries. These were on her birthplace, Meir Street, Tunstall, her second home on Edwards Street, Tunstall and the site of Newport Pottery by the canal in Burslem where her Bizarre ware was decorated. These were filmed by BBC television for showing on a special
Clarice Lispector by New Directions Publishing and Penguin Modern Classics, the first Brazilian to enter that prestigious series. Moser, who is also the editor of her anthology "The Complete Stories" (2015), describes Lispector as the most important Jewish writer in the world since Kafka. Clarice Lispector was born Chaya Lispector in Chechelnyk, Podolia, a shtetl in what is today Ukraine. She was the youngest of three daughters of Pinkhas Lispector and Mania Krimgold Lispector. Her family suffered terribly in the pogroms during the Russian Civil War that followed the dissolution of the Russian Empire, circumstances later dramatized in her older sister Elisa