MAX AND THE CATS Moacyr Scliar, , trans. from the Portuguese by Eloah F. Giacomelli. . Plume, $11 (115pp) ISBN 978-0-452-28453-1. Originally published in Brazil in 1981, Scliar's novella tells ...

SAO PAULO – Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, who achieved international recognition with his novels and short stories, has died. He was 73. The Brazilian Academy of Letters says in an online ...

max and the cats Moacyr Scliar, Author, Eloah F. Giacomelli, Translator , trans. from the Portuguese by Eloah F. Giacomelli. Plume $11 (115p) ISBN 978-0-452-28453-1 ...

Moacyr Scliar, a Brazilian writer best known for his novel Max and the Cats, has died.He was 73. Scliar died in hospital early Sunday of multiple organ failure, the Brazilian Academy of Letters ...

The death of Brazilian fabulist Moacyr Scliar, ... Life of Pi,” confessed to having borrowed — others would say plagiarized — the premise of Scliar’s 1981 novel “Max and the Cats.” ...

Moacyr Scliar's 1981 novel Max and the Cats inspired Yann Martel's Booker Prize–winning novel The Life of Pi. The two books are very different, ...

Moacyr Scliar deals in fantasy, but the Booker win of a Canadian novel based on his Max and the Cats was one of his life's strangest moments, he tells RAY CONLOGUE. Skip to main content.

A Brazilian writer, Moacyr Scliar, says the Canadian writer may have plagiarized his 1981 novella Max and the Cats,a Holocaust allegory about a Jewish boy adrift off the coast of Brazil in a ...

In 1981, Dr Scliar, a physician living in southern Brazil and an award-winning author of 16 novels, wrote Max and The Cats, in which a Jewish youth survives a shipwreck and ends up sharing a ...

SAO PAULO (AP) - Brazilian writer Moacyr Scliar, who achieved international recognition with his novels and short stories, has died. He was 73. The Brazilian Academy of Letters says in an online ...