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Benjamin Alire Sáenz

(b.1954)

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.

Awards: PEN (2013) see all

Genres: Young Adult Fiction

Series

Aristotle and Dante
1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012)
2. Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World (2021)

Novels

   Carry Me Like Water (1995)
   The House of Forgetting (1997)
   Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood (2004)
   In Perfect Light (2005)
   Names On a Map (2008)
   He Forgot to Say Goodbye (2008)
   Last Night I Sang to the Monster (2009)
   The Inexplicable Logic of My Life (2017)

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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Awards

2013 PEN/Faulkner Award : Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club

Award nominations

	2013 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
	2004 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : Sammy & Juliana in Hollywood

Benjamin Alire Sáenz recommends

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