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Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles born author and journalist. His most recent book is "Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Freed Them." His novel "The Barbarian Nurseries," was published by FSG and named a New York Times Notable Book. "The Barbarian Nurseries" has been translated into French, German and other languages. "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.

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 rom East Los Angeles to Iraq), and 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.

He has a Master in Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of California Irvine, and studied at UC Santa Cruz and at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico City. He is also the author of "Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States" and "The Tattooed Soldier," a novel, a finalist for the PEN USA West Award for First Fiction. He's married, the father of three children and the son of Guatemalan immigrants.

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