Hector Tobar
Héctor Tobar (* 1963 in Los Angeles ) is an American novelist and journalist. His work sheds light on the relationship between Latin America and the United States.
Tobar, the son of immigrants from Guatemala , studied at the University of California, Santa Cruz and completed the MFA program in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine .
After heading the Los Angeles Times offices in Mexico City and Buenos Aires , he now writes weekly columns for the newspaper.
For their reports on the riots in Los Angeles in 1992 , the LA Times team with Héctor Tobar received the Pulitzer Prize .
Hispanic Business magazine named Tobar one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the United States in 2006 .
Works
- The Tattooed Soldier , Delphinium Books, Penguin Books, 1998, ISBN 978-1-883285-15-9
- Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States , Riverhead Books, 2005, ISBN 978-1-57322-305-8
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The Barbarian Nurseries, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
- German: In the houses of the barbarians (Piper, 2012)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, alum Hector Tobar speaks on campus . UC Santa Cruz. November 15, 2007. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ↑ Hector Tobar bio . Los Angeles Times. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ↑ Jennifer McNulty: Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter's stories lead to new book, Translation Nation . UC Santa Cruz Currents. April 25, 2005. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated June 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tobar, Héctor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American novelist and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | los Angeles |