Hériz, Enrique de

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. In 2000, he left his job as editorial director at Ediciones B, a Spanish publisher and division of Penguin Random House, to become a full-time writer. He wrote a series of acclaimed novels, among them Lies and The Manual of Darkness. Lies was translated into English by John Cullen and was nominated for the Premio Valle-Inclán in 2007. De Hériz died of lung cancer in 2019. He left behind his wife Yolanda Cespedosa, an editor, and two children.