Hecht, Tobias

Tobias Hecht??'s first book, At Home in the Street: Street Children of Northeast Brazil, won the 2002 Margaret Mead Award. Hecht is the editor of Minor Omissions: Children in Latin American History and Society and the translator of The Museum of Useless Efforts, by Cristina Peri Rossi. His story ???La sexta columna??? won second prize in the short-story category of the Hucha de Oro, Spain??'s most important literary contest. Hecht received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Cambridge University.