Creator Bio
Moacyr Scliar
1937–2011
Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, Moacyr Scliar was one of the most acclaimed and widely translated Brazilian authors. The author of short story collections and novels, he has been credited with giving expression to the Jewish Brazilian experience. He also worked as a public health physician. Scliar received numerous awards, including the Academia de Letras, the Brasilia Prize, the Guimarães Rosa Prize, and the Brazil Pen Club Award.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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A War Has No “Good End”
In 1943, the nights were black. The country was at war with Germany and a blackout was instituted, perforated from time to time by fifth-columnists lighting cigarettes to reveal Bom Fim’s defensive…
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The Centaur in the Garden
Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…