The University of New Mexico Press has published Heath Wing’s English translation of Moacyr Scliar’s The Woman Who Wrote the Bible, published originally in Portuguese as A Mulher que Escreveu a Bíblia in Brazil in 1999 and later in Arabic, Czech, French, Italian, and Spanish. The satirical novel tells the story of one of King Solomon’s seven hundred wives, a neglected woman whose emergent talent results in her authoring the most prominent text in human history. A feminist critique skewering the absurdities of patriarchy, this unique gem joins other notable English translations (including Max and the Cats and The One-Man Army) from the late Scliar, a Brazilian physician and acclaimed author of over a dozen books published in more than twenty countries.
