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