Gaucho Moacyr Scliar, who shared the prize for the I Literature Writing Contest – Short Story with Roniwalter Jatobá de Almeida, is a doctor in Porto Alegre and the author of numerous books, some of which have been reissued: The Carnival of the Animals, The Ballad of the False Messiah, The War in Bom Fim, The One-Man Army, The Gods of Raquel, Mysteries of Porto Alegre and Stories of a doctor in training. Some of the stories in The Tremulous Earth were previously published in newspapers and magazines.
