Moacyr Scliar, Brazilian Novelist, Dies at 73

By WILLIAM GRIMES

Published: March 5, 2011Moacyr 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.

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Moacyr Scliar in 1999.

Morre aos 73 anos o Acadêmico Moacyr Scliar da Academia Brasileira de Letras

Moacyr Scliar (pronounced Mwa-SEAR SKLEER) lived all his life in the city of Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil’s southernmost state, Rio Grande do Sul, to which many Eastern Europeans, like his parents, immigrated in the early 20th century./.../