Moacyr Scliar

Moacyr Scliar was born on 23 March 1937 in Porto Alegre, into a Jewish family that had come from Bessarabia in 1919. A medical graduate of his state's federal university, he specialised in public health and pursued his medical career and his writing side by side. A novelist, short-story writer, essayist and author for young people, he published several dozen books, translated into a dozen languages according to the São Paulo Municipal Chamber. Elected in 2003 to the Brazilian Academy of Letters, he died in Porto Alegre on 27 February 2011.

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• NovelThe Centaur in the GardenO centauro no jardimMoacyr Scliar · 1980Literature