UNM Press Publishes Moacyr Scliar Translation

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.