Héctor Tobar

Héctor Tobar is the author of the novels The Barbarian Nurseries (Picador) and The Tattooed Soldier (Picador), as well as the nonfiction books Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine and the Miracle That Set Them Free (Picador) and Translation Nation: Defining a New American Identity in the Spanish-Speaking United States (Riverhead). He is an associate professor at the University of California at Irvine.