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Moacyr Scliar

1937 - 2011

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Moacyr Jaime Scliar (March 23, 1937 – February 27, 2011) was a Brazilian writer and physician. Most of his writing centers on issues of Jewish identity in the Diaspora and particularly on being Jewish in Brazil. Scliar is best known outside Brazil for his 1981 novel Max and the Cats (Max e os Felinos), the story of a young German man who flees Berlin after he comes to the attention of the Nazis for having had an affair with a married woman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moacyr Scliar has received more than 80,472 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Moacyr Scliar is the 4,339th most popular writer (down from 4,089th in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Brazil (down from 394th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Brazilian Writer.

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  • 80k

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  • 56.26

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Moacyr Scliar ranks 4,339 out of 7,302. Before him are Helen Prejean, Breyten Breytenbach, Ruth Westheimer, Maksim Tank, Connie Willis, and Yurii Andrukhovych. After him are Andrew Marvell, Larry Collins, Pherecrates, Robert G. Ingersoll, William Thoms, and Adela Zamudio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Moacyr Scliar ranks 305. Before him are Clodovil Hernandes, Sally Kellerman, Merle Haggard, Jennifer Welles, Brian G. Marsden, and Nikolay Drozdov. After him are Galimzyan Khusainov, Anna Massey, Nélida Piñon, Joe Henderson, Jørgen Leth, and Ildikó Újlaky-Rejtő. Among people deceased in 2011, Moacyr Scliar ranks 257. Before him are Peter Post, John Patrick Foley, Abderrahmane Mahjoub, John Stott, Inge Sørensen, and Marco Simoncelli. After him are Gil Scott-Heron, Anna Massey, Géza Alföldy, James L. Elliot, Alenush Terian, and Francesco Quinn.

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In Brazil

Among people born in Brazil, Moacyr Scliar ranks 464 out of 2,236. Before him are José Lázaro Robles (1924), Ederson (1993), Vágner Love (1984), Ricardo Rocha (1962), Laurindo Almeida (1917), and Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923). After him are Sávio (1974), Castro Alves (1847), José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco (1845), Nélida Piñon (1937), Marquinhos (1994), and Bernardo Rezende (1959).

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Among WRITERS In Brazil

Among writers born in Brazil, Moacyr Scliar ranks 20. Before him are José de Alencar (1829), Monteiro Lobato (1882), Bernardo Guimarães (1825), Oswald de Andrade (1890), Ana Maria Machado (1941), and Lygia Fagundes Telles (1923). After him are Castro Alves (1847), Nélida Piñon (1937), Gregório de Matos (1636), Rachel de Queiroz (1910), Gonçalves Dias (1823), and Manuel Bandeira (1886).

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