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.
In 2012, his critically acclaimed second novel Glória, about a "plastic artist searching for an impossible woman", came out, for which he was awarded the prestigious Prêmio Jabuti the following year.
[17][18] The same year, he was included by Forbes Brasil in their "UNDER 30 in Literature" list,[19] and one of his poems was featured in the anthology É Agora como Nunca, edited by singer Adriana Calcanhotto.
[26] In one of his final interviews, from October 2017, he stated that he was working on a fourth 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.
[8] A posthumous collection containing seventy of Heringer's crônicas, Vida Desinteressante, came out through Companhia das Letras in 2021;[27][28] it was nominated for another Prêmio Jabuti the following year.