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Benjamin Alire Sáenz


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Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American Book Award-winning author of poetry and prose for adults and teens. Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood was an ALA Top Ten Book for Young Adults and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A former Wallace E. Stegner Fellow in poetry, he is a professor in the creative writing department at University of Texas, El Paso.
 

Genres: Young Adult Fiction
 
Novels
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Collections
   Calendar of Dust (poems) (1991)
   Flowers for the Broken (1992)
   Dark and Perfect Angels (poems) (1996)
   Que Linda Ia Brisa (poems) (2000) (with Jimmy Santiago Baca)
   Elegies in Blue (poems) (2002)
   Dreaming the End of War (poems) (2006)
   The Book of What Remains (poems) (2010)
   Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club (2012)
   The Last Cigarette on Earth (poems) (2017)
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Benjamin Alire Sáenz recommends
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Goodbye Days (2017)
Jeff Zentner
"Tender, honest, moving, and lyrical. His characters live and breathe. Ahh, lucky me. Lucky us. Zentner is the real thing."

Awards
Michael L. Printz Award Best Book nominee (2013) : Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
PEN/Faulkner Award for fiction Best Book winner (2013) : Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club


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