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Victor Heringer

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Victor Heringer

Victor Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. His first poetry collection, Automatógrafo, was published in 2011, followed by his debut novel, Glória, which won the 2013 Jabuti Prize. His second novel, The Love of Singular Men, was published in 2016, and was shortlisted for the São Paulo Prize for Literature, the Rio Prize, and the Oceanos Prize....

He also published O escritor Victor Heringer (2015), a conceptual book of photographs, contributed a weekly column to the literary magazine Pessoa, and translated from English to Portuguese. In 2017 he was selected by Forbes for their “under 30” list. Heringer died in 2018, three weeks before his thirtieth birthday. Following his death, Companhia das Letras reissued all of his works and a complete anthology of his poems. In 2021, they published a collection of his nonfiction writing, Vida desinteressante, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Jabuti Prize. 

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Two men's shadows
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