Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar talks migration and belonging at The Huntington
Pulitzer Prize winner Héctor Tobar talks migration and belonging at The Huntington
- November 1, 2026
- Hector Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and English, in the Pasadena Now
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As a journalist, Héctor Tobar was the Los Angeles Times bureau chief in Buenos Aires and Mexico City and a member of the reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1992 L.A. riots. He earned an MFA in fiction from the University of California, Irvine, where he is a professor, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Harvard Radcliffe Fellowship.
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