# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/hector-tobar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:17:55.704Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/hector-tobar"
name: "Héctor Tobar"
slug: "hector-tobar"
description: "Héctor Tobar is a Los Angeles author, novelist, and journalist, whose work examines the evolving and interdependent relationship between Latin America, Latino immigrants, and the United States. In 2023, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction."
tagline: "American journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/H%C3%A9ctor_Tobar_8126038.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1963"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.3
  momentum:             4.534883720930232
  historical:           6.346725333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     49.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/TobarWriter"
    handle:    "TobarWriter"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5203976/"
    handle:    "nm5203976"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Tobar"
    title: "Héctor Tobar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1"
    title: "هيكتور توبار"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Tobar_(Journalist)"
    title: "Héctor Tobar (Journalist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Tobar"
    title: "Héctor Tobar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Tobar"
    title: "Héctor Tobar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A9ctor_Tobar"
    title: "Héctor Tobar"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2688723"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1578152"
    title: "Hector Tobar"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump