Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Si Benjamin Alire Sáenz (namundag Agosto 16, 1954) sarong Amerikanong pararawit, nobelista, asin parasurat nin mga librong pan-aki.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Sáenz sa 2016 Texas Book Festival
Minundagan	(1954-08-16) Agosto 16, 1954 Doña Ana County, New Mexico, U.S.
Nasyunalidad	Amerikano
Edukasyon	St. Thomas Seminary (BA) University of Texas at El Paso (MA)
Panahon	1990s–present
Genre	Novels, short stories, poetry, young adult literature
Tuyo	Hispanic and Latino American culture, LGBT
Bantog na gibo	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
Mga bantog na gawad	American Book Award (1992) PEN/Faulkner Award (2013)

Kaamayi nin buhay asin edukasyon

Si Sáenz pinadakula harani sa Las Cruces, New Mexico. Siya nagkam it nin BA sa Humanidades asin Pilosopiya sa St. Thomas Seminary nin Denver, Colorado asin MA sa creative writing sa University of Texas sa El Paso. Siya nag'eestar asin dagos naghanapbuhay sa El Paso, Texas. Pakalihis nin 15 taon na kasal sa saiyang agom na huwes sa El Paso, siya nagbiklad na sarong bakla, asin sinda nagdiborsyo kan 2009.

Kan 2013, si Benjamin Alire Sáenz iyo an pinakaenot na Latino na manggana kan prestihiyosong PEN/Faulkner Book Award para sa Piksyon kan saiyang entri na Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club.

Kan Oktobre 29, 2022, si Sáenz nagawadan kan Inaugural Hummingbird Award in Literary Arts kan Tulsa City-County Library. An kasibnotan pig-amaan kan Tulsa City-County Library asin kan Hispanic Resource Center.

Mga Premyo

• 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.

Mga Obra

• "Students I See Every Day", Santa Fe Poetry Broadside, Issue #31, February, 2003
• Do Not Mind the Bombs, Narrative Magazine

Mga Rawit

• 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. 

Halipot na Usipon

• 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. 

Mga Nobela

• 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. 

Mga nobelang pang-hubin

• 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
• Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2021

Mga Librong pan-aki

• 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. 
• A Perfect Season for Dreaming, Cinco Puntos Press 2008.
• The Dog Who Loved Tortillas, Cinco Puntos Press 2009

Mga Antolohiya

• 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

Mga pamnluwas na takod

• Benjamin Alire Sáenz official page at Simon & Schuster, Inc.
• Benjamin Alire Sáenz Archived 2020-10-31 at the Wayback Machine. official page at Cinco Puntos Press
• Plantilya:LCAuth