Victor Heringer

Victor Heringer
Born Victor Doblas Heringer
(1988-03-27)March 27, 1988
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Died March 7, 2018(2018-03-07) (aged 29)
Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Occupation Poet, novelist, translator
Language Portuguese
Nationality Brazilian
Alma mater Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Genre Novel, poetry
Notable works Glória, O Amor dos Homens Avulsos
Notable awards Prêmio Jabuti (2013)
Years active 2011–2018

Victor Doblas Heringer (March 27, 1988 – March 7, 2018) was a Brazilian Prêmio Jabuti-winning novelist, translator and poet, famous for his novels Glória (2012) and O Amor dos Homens Avulsos (2016).

Biography

Victor Doblas Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro, in the bairro (neighborhood) of São Cristóvão, on March 27, 1988, but was raised in Nova Friburgo.[1] He graduated in Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and before publishing his first books he worked at the Instituto Moreira Salles.[2]

Heringer's debut work, the poetry anthology Automatógrafo, was released through 7Letras in 2011. The following year, he published the critically acclaimed novel Glória, about a "plastic artist searching for an impossible woman", for which he received the prestigious Prêmio Jabuti in 2013.[3] Heringer's second novel, O Amor dos Homens Avulsos, came out in 2016 through Companhia das Letras, and tells the story "of two boys who fall in love with each other, but have their passion interrupted by a tragedy";[4] it was nominated for the Prêmio Rio de Literatura, the São Paulo Prize for Literature and the Prêmio Oceanos. He claims that the fictional neighborhood in which the novel takes place was inspired by the real-life neighborhood of Del Castilho in Rio de Janeiro, where he used to visit his grandmother when he was a kid.

Heringer's final published work was a translation to Portuguese of Loung Ung's 2000 memoir First They Killed My Father, which came out in Brazil in 2017 through HarperCollins.[5][6]

On March 7, 2018, three weeks prior to his 30th birthday, Heringer was found dead near the building in which he lived, in Copacabana.[1] The cause of death was undisclosed, but the police and firemen came to speculate he accidentally fell from the window of his apartment. On June 9, 2018, his publisher Companhia das Letras announced that, as a tribute to him, they were planning to release a complete anthology of his works; they had already re-issued his first novel Glória some months prior.[7]

In one of his final interviews, from October 2017, he stated that he was working on a third novel, scheduled to be published in 2018 and inspired by his travels across South America, India and Indonesia, but it is unknown if he was able to finish it prior to his death.[3] From 2014 to 2017 he also had a weekly column in the magazine Pessoa.[8]

Bibliography

References

  1. 1 2 "Aos 29 anos, morre no Rio o escritor Victor Heringer". O Globo (in Portuguese). March 7, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Sobre Victor Heringer". Blog do IMS (in Portuguese). March 8, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Escritor Victor Heringer, finalista do Prêmio Jabuti, morre aos 29 anos". Correio Braziliense (in Portuguese). March 8, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Morre o escritor carioca Victor Heringer". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). March 7, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Primeiro Mataram Meu Pai, livro que inspirou filme de Angelina Jolie, chega ao Brasil". Omelete (in Portuguese). September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  6. ↑ "Resenha: Primeiro Mataram Meu Pai, livro que inspirou filme de Angelina Jolie". Blah Cultural (in Portuguese). October 20, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  7. ↑ "Vendas de livro de Victor Heringer disparam e editora vai reunir obra do autor". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). June 9, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
  8. ↑ Revista Pessoa – Colunas: Victor Heringer (in Portuguese)
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