Hector Tobar Biography

Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles-born author and journalist. He is the author of four books published in ten languages including the critically acclaimed New York Times bestseller Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free. Deep Down Dark was adapted into the film The 33 starring Antonio Banderas.
His novel The Barbarian Nurseries was published by FSG and named a New York Times Notable Book. The Barbarian Nurseries won the California Book Award Gold Medal for Fiction a distinction Tobar shares with John Steinbeck Michael Chabon T.C. Boyle and many other distinguished California writers.
Tobar is also a contributing writer for the New York Times opinion pages and an associate professor at the University of California Irvine.
For two decades he worked for The Los Angeles Times: as a city reporter national and foreign correspondent (on assignments from Alaska to Patagonia and from East Los Angeles to Iraq). He was part of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots. He was The Times Bureau Chief in Buenos Aires and Mexico City. For several years he wrote a column for The Los Angeles Times and has also worked as Features Editor at The LA Weekly and as editor of the bilingual San Francisco magazine El Tecolote.

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