Victor Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. His first poetry collection, automatografo, was published by 7Letras in 2011, followed by his debut novel, Gloria, which was awarded the 2013 Jabuti Prize. His second novel, O amor dos homens avulsos (The Love of Singular Men), was published by Companhia das Letras in 2016, and was shortlisted for 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, contributed a weekly column to the literary magazine Pessoa and translated from English to Portuguese. In 2017 he was selected by Forbes Brasil for inclusion in their 'Forbes under 30' list. Victor Heringer died in 2018, three weeks before his thirtieth birthday. Following his death, Companhia das Letras reissued all of his works and published a collection of his non-fiction writing, Vida desinteressante, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Jabuti Prize. The Love of Singular Men is his first novel to be translated into English.
