Enrique de Hériz

Enrique de Hériz (1964 – 14 March 2019) was a Spanish writer, translator, and literary critic. He was born in Barcelona and studied Spanish Philology at the University of Barcelona. At an early age he achieved prominence as a translator and an editor. Among the authors whose books he helped to produce in Spanish were Annie Proulx, Nadine Gordimer, Stephen King, Peter Carey, and John Fowles. He also produced the first full Spanish translation of Robinson Crusoe. He wrote a series of acclaimed novels, among them Mentira ("Lies", 2004) and Manual de la oscuridad ("The Manual of Darkness", 2009). Mentira won the in 2004, which is awarded by the Guild of Booksellers of Catalonia. It was translated into English, as Lies, by John Cullen (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007, ) and was the runner-up for the Premio Valle-Inclán in 2007. The Manual of Darkness was translated into English in 2011 by Frank Wynne (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ) .

De Hériz died of lung cancer in 2019 at the age of 55.