Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 73
by William Grimes
Moacyr Scliar, one of Brazil’s most celebrated novelists and short-story writers, whose existential allegories explored the complexities of Jewish identity in the Diaspora, died on Feb. 27 in Porto Alegre. He was 73.
The Brazilian Academy of Letters stated on its Web site (academia.org.br), that the cause was complications of a stroke.
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In Nederlandse vertaling verscheen van hem de roman De Centaur in de Tuin. Amsterdam, Werldbibliotheek, 1994.
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