Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Benjamin Alire Sáenz | |
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 Sáenz at the 2016 Texas Book Festival | |
| Born | August 16, 1954 Doña Ana County, New Mexico, USA |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | American |
| Period | 1990s-present |
| Genre | Novels, short stories, poetry, young adult literature |
| Subject | Hispanic and Latino American culture, LGBT |
| Notable works | Carry Me Like Water, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club |
| Notable awards | American Book Award (1992) PEN/Faulkner Award (2013) |
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz (born August 16, 1954) is an American poet, novelist and writer of children's books.
Awards
- Wallace E. Stegner Fellowship, poetry
- 1992 American Book Award, for Calendar of Dust
- Lannan Poetry Fellowship 1993
- Carry Me Like Water, Southwest Book Award 1996 (Border Regional Library Association)
- Dark and Perfect Angels, Southwest Book Award 1996 (Border Regional Library Association)
- Grandma Fina and Her Wonderful Umbrellas, Best Children's Book 2000, Texas Institute of Letters
- Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood, Americas Book Award, the Paterson Book Prize, the J Hunt Award, Finalist Los Angeles Book Prize, BBYA Top Ten Books for Young Adults
- He Forgot to Say Goodbye. Tomás Rivera Mexican American Children's Book Award, Southwest Book Award (Border Regional Library Association), Chicago Public Library, Best of the Best Books for Teens, New York Public Library Stuff for the Teen 2009, Commended Title, Americas Book Award 2009
- A Perfect Season for Dreaming, Best Children's Book, Friends of the Austin Public Library 2008 (Texas Institute of Letters), Bank Street Best Children's Books of the Year 2008, Kirkus Review 2008 Notable Books for Children, Paterson Book Prize
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Stonewall Book Award; Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children's and Young Adult Literature Award, 2013; Honor Book, Michael L. Printz Award, 2013; Pura Belpré Award, 2013.
Works
- "Students I See Every Day", Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Issue #31, February, 2003
- Do Not Mind the Bombs, Narrative Magazine
Poetry
- Calendar of Dust. Broken Moon Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-913089-16-3.
- Dark and Perfect Angels. Cinco Puntos Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-938317-23-4.
- Elegies in Blue. Cinco Puntos Press. 2002. ISBN 978-0-938317-64-7.
- Dreaming the End of War. Copper Canyon Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-55659-239-3.
- The Book of What Remains. Copper Canyon Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-55659-297-3.
Short stories
- Flowers for the Broken. Broken Moon Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-913089-28-6.
- Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. Cinco Puntos Press. 2012. ISBN 9781935955320.
Novels
- Carry Me Like Water, Hyperion, 1995
- The House of Forgetting. HarperCollins. 1997.
- In Perfect Light. HarperCollins. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-077921-4.
- En el tiempo de la Luz, Rayo/HarperCollins 2006
- Names on a Map. Harper Perennial. 2008. ISBN 978-0-06-128569-1.
Young-adult novels
- Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood. Cinco Puntos Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-938317-81-4.
- He Forgot to Say Goodbye. Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. 2008-06-17. ISBN 978-1-4169-4963-3.
- Last Night I Sang to the Monster, Cinco Puntos Press 2009
- Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2012
- The Inexplicable Logic of My Life, Clarion Books, 2017
Children's books
- A Gift from Papa Diego. Bt Bound. 1999. ISBN 978-0-613-06587-0.
- Grandma Fina and Her Wonderful Umbrellas. Illustrator Geronimo Garcia. Cinco Puntos Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-938317-61-6.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - A Perfect Season for Dreaming, Cinco Puntos Press 2008.
- The Dog Who Loved Tortillas, Cinco Puntos Press 2009
Anthologies
- Dagoberto Gilb, ed. (2008). "The Unchronicled Death of Your Holy Father; Fences". Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature. UNM Press. ISBN 978-0-8263-4126-6.
- X. J. Kennedy; Dana Gioia, eds. (2005). An introduction to poetry. Pearson Longman. ISBN 978-0-321-20939-9.
- "To the Desert," "Resurrections," Twentieth Century American Poetry (2004), edited by Dana Gioia, McGraw Hill ISBN 0-07-240019-6
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Benjamin Alire Sáenz.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz faculty page at the University of Texas at El Paso
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz at Library of Congress, with 22 library catalog records
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Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century American poets
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American novelists
- 21st-century American poets
- 21st-century American short story writers
- American children's writers
- American writers of young adult literature
- American male novelists
- American male poets
- American male short story writers
- American writers of Mexican descent
- Gay writers
- Hispanic and Latino American novelists
- Hispanic and Latino American poets
- Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners
- LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people
- LGBT novelists
- LGBT poets
- LGBT writers from the United States
- LGBT people from New Mexico
- PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
- People from Doña Ana County, New Mexico
- Poets from Texas
- Poets from New Mexico
- Stanford University alumni
- University of Iowa alumni
- University of Texas at El Paso alumni
- University of Texas at El Paso faculty
- Writers from New Mexico
- Novelists from Texas
- American Book Award winners
- 20th-century American male writers
- 21st-century American male writers