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Héctor Tobar
novelist, writer about town, opinionator, literary journalist, university professor
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Latest news: Héctor will be appearing in Los Angeles on June 13 to accept the Zócalo Book Prize for Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of 'Latino'. Details here.
Our Migrant Souls is also the winner of the Kirkus Prize for nonfiction, and has been named to best of the year lists by The New York Times Sunday Book Review, Amazon, Time, NPR, and the Chicago Public Library, among others
Héctor Tobar is the author of six books published in fifteen languages, including, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of Latino, published by MCD/Farrar, Straus & Giroux. In a starred review, Bookpage calls Our Migrant Souls "one of the most important pieces of Latino nonfiction in several decades. Turning the last page, you will feel the weight of history on your shoulders." The New York Times calls Our Migrant Souls, "a resonant and deeply aff
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Héctor Tobar
Héctor Tobar is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller DEEP DOWN DARK, as well as THE BARBARIAN NURSERIES, TRANSLATION NATION and THE TATTOOED SOLDIER. Héctor is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine. He's written for The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, L.A. Noir, Zyzzyva and Slate. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his family.
Books by Héctor Tobar
Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of "Latino"
by Héctor Tobar- Nonfiction, Social SciencesThe Barbarian Nurseries
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Tobar, Héctor 1963-
PERSONAL: Born 1963, in Los Angeles, CA; married to Virginia Espino; children: Dante, Diego, Luna. Education: Attended University of California at Santa Cruz; University of California at Irvine, M.F.A.
ADDRESSES: Home—Mexico City, Mexico. Agent—c/o Author Mail, Riverhead Books, Penguin Putnam, 375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014.
CAREER: Journalist. Worked for a community paper in San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, CA, staff member, 1989–94, 1996–, Buenos Aires bureau chief and Mexico City correspondent, beginning 2005.
AWARDS, HONORS: Pulitzer Prize (with others), 1992, for Los Angeles Times coverage of Los Angeles riots.
WRITINGS:
The Tattooed Soldier (novel), Delphinium Books (New York, NY), 1998.
Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-speaking United States, Riverhead Books (New York, NY), 2005.
Contributor to various periodicals.
SIDELIGHTS: Journalist Héctor Tobar was born in Los Angeles, California, to parents who had recently moved to the United States from Guatemala. After coll
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