Victor Heringer
Victor Doblas Heringer (March 27, 1988 – March 7, 2018) was a Brazilian Prêmio Jabuti-winning novelist, translator, chronicler and poet, famous for his novels Glória (2012) and O Amor dos Homens Avulsos (2016).
Victor Heringer | |
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| Born | Victor Doblas Heringer March 27, 1988 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Died | March 7, 2018 (aged 29) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupation | Poet, novelist, translator |
| Language | Portuguese |
| Nationality | Brazilian |
| Alma mater | Federal University of Rio de Janeiro |
| Genre | Novel, poetry, crônica |
| Years active | 2011–2018 |
| Notable works | Glória O Amor dos Homens Avulsos |
| Notable awards | Prêmio Jabuti (2013) |
Biography
Victor Doblas Heringer was born on March 27, 1988, to a family of German descent[1] in Rio de Janeiro, in the bairro (neighborhood) of São Cristóvão, but was raised in Nova Friburgo.[2] Graduated in Literature from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, before publishing his first books he worked at the Instituto Moreira Salles[3] and at the Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa after obtaining a scholarship for the latter. Between 2014 and 2017 he had a weekly column in the magazine Pessoa,[4] and also periodically wrote for the Pernambuco-based magazine Continente,[5] among many others.
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.[6][7] Heringer's second novel, O Amor dos Homens Avulsos, came out in 2016 through Companhia das Letras,[8][9] and tells the story "of two boys who fall in love with each other, but have their passion interrupted by a tragedy";[10] 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 work to be published during his lifetime 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.[11][12] The same year, he was included by Forbes Brasil in their "UNDER 30 in Literature" list.[13]
Throughout most of his life Heringer struggled with depression.[14] On March 7, 2018, three weeks prior to his 30th birthday, he was found dead near his apartment in Copacabana following an apparent suicide by self-defenestration.[2][15][16] On June 9, 2018, his publisher Companhia das Letras announced that, as a tribute to him, they would re-issue all of his works; they had already re-published his first novel Glória some months prior,[17] and a complete anthology of his poems was originally announced to be released in 2019.[18] 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.[6]
A posthumous collection containing seventy of Heringer's crônicas, Vida Desinteressante, came out through Companhia das Letras in 2021.[19]
Bibliography
- Poetry
- Automatógrafo (7Letras, 2011)
- Novels
- Glória (7Letras, 2012; re-issued by Companhia das Letras in 2018)
- O Amor dos Homens Avulsos (Companhia das Letras, 2016)
- Crônicas
- Vida Desinteressante (Companhia das Letras, 2021; posthumous)
- Translation
References
- ^ "Elogio de um amigo teuto-carioca: sobre o escritor Victor Heringer". UOL (in Portuguese). March 13, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
- ^ a b "Aos 29 anos, morre no Rio o escritor Victor Heringer". O Globo (in Portuguese). March 7, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ "Sobre Victor Heringer". Blog do IMS (in Portuguese). March 8, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ Revista Pessoa – Colunas: Victor Heringer (in Portuguese)
- ^ Victor Heringer (August 1, 2017). "Os sinos que dobram e os homens que não se dobram". Revista Continente. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
- ^ a b "Escritor Victor Heringer, finalista do Prêmio Jabuti, morre aos 29 anos". Correio Braziliense (in Portuguese). March 8, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ "Absurdo e divertido, romance Glória nos faz rir onde deveria nos fazer chorar". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). January 25, 2019. Retrieved October 16, 2019.
- ^ "Multiplataforma, Victor Heringer pediu ajuda na rede para escrever seu novo livro". Época (in Portuguese). September 2, 2016. Retrieved August 12, 2020.
- ^ Bolívar Torres (August 23, 2016). "Victor Heringer, ativista da ternura e do afeto". O Globo (in Portuguese). Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ^ "Morre o escritor carioca Victor Heringer". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). March 7, 2018. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ "Primeiro Mataram Meu Pai, livro que inspirou filme de Angelina Jolie, chega ao Brasil". Omelete (in Portuguese). September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ "Resenha: Primeiro Mataram Meu Pai, livro que inspirou filme de Angelina Jolie". Blah Cultural (in Portuguese). October 20, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2018.
- ^ "Victor Heringer, UNDER 30 em 2017, é encontrado morto no Rio". Forbes Brasil (in Portuguese). March 8, 2018. Retrieved January 2, 2021.
- ^ "Na flor da idade". Veja (in Portuguese). June 19, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
- ^ "Suicídios no Brasil, o país onde o passado não passa". Combate Racismo Ambiental (in Portuguese). May 7, 2018. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^ "CONSIDERAÇÕES EM TORNO DE "O AMOR DOS HOMENS AVULSOS", DE VICTOR HERINGER". Psychiatry Online Brasil (in Portuguese). May 2, 2018. Retrieved February 23, 2019.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Oito meses após a morte de Victor Heringer, Glória ganha reedição, e poesias inéditas saem em 2019". O Globo (in Portuguese). November 9, 2018. Retrieved February 24, 2019.
- ^ "'Anticrônicas' de Victor Heringer ganham edição". Rascunho (in Portuguese). September 9, 2021. Retrieved November 20, 2021.