Glória

Victor Heringer was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1988. His first poetry collection, automatógrafo, was published by 7Letras in 2011, followed by his debut novel, Glória, 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 São 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 nonfiction writing, Vida desinteressante, which was shortlisted for the 2022 Jabuti Prize. Glória is his second novel to be translated into English, after The Love of Singular Men (2023).

Sophie Lewis is a London-based translator and editor. Working with Portuguese and French, she has translated Natalia Borges Polesso, João Gilberto Noll, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Fábio Zuker, Stendhal, Jules Verne, Violette Leduc, Leïla Slimani, Claire Lebourg, Noémi Lefebvre and Colette Fellous, among others. With Gitanjali Patel, she co-founded the Shadow Heroes translation workshops enterprise (www.shadowheroes. org). Lewis’s translations have been shortlisted for the Scott Moncrieff and Republic of Consciousness prizes, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. She was joint winner of the French-American Foundation’s 2022 prize for non-fiction translation, for In the Eye of the Wild by Nastassja Martin. Her recent translations from Portuguese include Out of Earth by Sheyla Smanioto (co-translated with Laura Garmeson) and The Simple Art of Killing a Woman by Patrícia Melo.

James Young is a translator and writer from Northern Ireland. He is the winner of the 2022 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize, and translated The Love of Singular Men by Victor Heringer into English. His short stories have appeared in publications including Wasafiri, Short Fiction and The Honest Ulsterman, and been shortlisted for the 2019 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize, the 2019/20 Fish Short Story Prize and the 2021 Bath Short Story Award. He is the editor of the literary journal Short Fiction and runs the Hastings Writers Workshop. He lived in Brazil between 2005 and 2017, working as a teacher, translator and journalist.