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It’s been a big year for Héctor Tobar, UCI professor of Chicano/Latino studies and literary journalism, thanks to his most recent book, Our Migrant Souls: A Meditation on Race and the Meanings and Myths of “Latino.” Time magazine’s 100 Must-Read Books of 2023 calls the work a “valiant effort” for capturing the “myriad of experiences, identities, and histories” of what it means to be Latino. The New York Times names the title among both its 10 Best California Books and 100 Notable Books of 2023. Last month, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author won the Kirkus Prize for the book and, in April, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support The Los Angeles Novellas, a series of short fiction works about the history and future of the metropolis.
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