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Tobias Hecht

Hecht was born in Seattle, Washington. He received his B.A. from Columbia University in 1986 and his Ph.D.inSocial Anthropology in 1995 from the University of Cambridge,^[1] and was the winner of the 2002 Margaret Mead Award, for his book At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, an innovative study of street children in Northeastern Brazil.^[2]

In 2002–2003 he was the recipient of a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation research grant for his work on The violent life of Bruna Verissimo: An experimental ethnographic biography of a homeless Brazilian youth.^[3] His 2006 novel After Life: An Ethnographic Novel was based in part on that work.^[4]

In 2005 Hecht placed second in the Hucha de Oro, Spain's most important literary competition for short works of fiction.^[5] He taught at Pomona College.^[6]

Publications

• After Life: An Ethnographic Novel, Duke University Press, March 2006. ISBN 0-8223-3788-6
• "La sexta columna" in Yardbird y otros cuentos : Concurso de Cuentos de las Cajas de Ahorros, XXXIII Convocatoria Hucha de Oro, octubre 2005, April 2006.
• At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, Cambridge University Press, May 13, 1998. ISBN 0-521-59869-9
• El cerdito pulcro also entitled The Remarkably Clean Life of a Little Pig, a bilingual edition with illustrations by Cristina Perez Navarro, Ecologistas en Accion, (Madrid, Spain), October 2016. ISBN 978-84-944051-8-1
• Cangrejo con yogur also entitled Crab and Yogurt Pig, a bilingual edition, Valparaiso Ediciones, (Granada, Spain), January 2022. ISBN 978-8418694585

Edited books

• (with Isabel Balseiro) South Africa: A Traveler's Literary Companion, Whereabouts Press, August 11, 2009. ISBN 1-883513-22-7
• Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society, University of Wisconsin Press, September 7, 2002. ISBN 0-299-18034-4

Translations

• Cristina Peri Rossi, The Museum of Useless Efforts, University of Nebraska Press, April 2001. ISBN 0-8032-8764-X

• Tobias Hecht's website

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