Victor Heringer Author

Victor Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro. He was a restless multimedia artist, who experimented with all forms and subjects (string theory, astronomy, spirituality, politics). He wrote poems, essays and fiction, made videos, drawings, paintings and films, and learnt programming to publish digital books, full of hyperlinks and references. His first poetry collection, automatografo, was published in 2011, followed by his debut novel Gloria in 2012, which was awarded the 2013 Premio Jabuti, launching him to prominence and gaining him a reputation as an exceptional young talent. His second novel, O Amor dos Homens Avulsos (The Love of Singular Men), was published by Companhia das Letras in 2016, and was shortlistedf or the Sao Paulo Prize for Literature, the Rio Prize for Literature, and the Oceanos Prize. In his lifetime, he also published O escritor Victor Heringer (2015), a conceptual book of photographs, and contributed a weekly column to the literary magazine Pessoa. He also translated from English to Portuguese, and Heringer's last work to be published was his translation of Loung Ung's 2000 memoir First They Killed My Father, published by HarperCollins in 2017. That same year, he was selected by Forbes Brazil for inclusion in their 'UNDER 30 in Literature' list. In March 2018, Victor Heringer, who had long struggled with depression, died in Rio de Janeiro, three weeks before his 30th birthday.