Benjamin Alire Sáenz
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| birth_place   = [[Doña Ana County, New Mexico]], U.S.
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| education     = [[St. Thomas Seminary (Denver)|St. Thomas Seminary]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[University of Texas at El Paso]] ([[Master of Arts|MA]])
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| period        = 1990s–present
| genre         = Novels, short stories, poetry, young adult literature
| subject       = [[Hispanic and Latino American]] culture, [[LGBT]] 
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| notableworks  = ''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''
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Si '''Benjamin Alire Sáenz''' (namundag Agosto 16, 1954) sarong Amerikanong pararawit, nobelista, asin parasurat nin mga [[librong pan-aki]].

==Kaamayi nin buhay asin edukasyon==
Si Sáenz pinadakula harani sa Las Cruces, New Mexico.<ref name="passion">{{cite web|url=https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/the-passion-of-benjamin-saenz|title=The Passion of Benjamin Sáenz|last=Ballí|first=Cecilia|author-link=Cecilia Ballí |date=August 2013|website=Texas Monthly|access-date=February 1, 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/benjamin-alire-saenz|title=Benjamin Alire Sáenz|website=Poetry Foundation|access-date=February 1, 2021}}</ref> Pakalihis nin 15 taon na kasal sa saiyang agom na huwes sa El Paso, siya nagbiklad na sarong bakla, asin sinda nagdiborsyo kan 2009.<ref name="passion" />

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]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Winner & Finalists for 2013 Award for Fiction {{!}} The PEN/Faulkner Foundation |url=https://www.penfaulkner.org/2013/07/23/winner-finalists-for-2013-award-for-fiction/ |access-date=2022-05-21 |website=www.penfaulkner.org}}</ref>

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==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080828130913/http://sfpoetry.org/saenz2.html "Students I See Every Day", ''Santa Fe Poetry Broadside'', Issue #31, February, 2003]
*[http://narrativemagazine.com/issues/poems-week-2008-2009/do-not-mind-bombs ''Do Not Mind the Bombs'', Narrative Magazine]

===Mga Rawit===
* {{cite book| title=Calendar of Dust| publisher=Broken Moon Press| year= 1991| isbn=978-0-913089-16-3 }}
* {{cite book| title=Dark and Perfect Angels| publisher= Cinco Puntos Press| year= 1995| isbn= 978-0-938317-23-4 }}
* {{cite book| title=Elegies in Blue| publisher=Cinco Puntos Press| year= 2002| isbn=978-0-938317-64-7}}
* {{cite book| title=Dreaming the End of War| publisher=[[Copper Canyon Press]]| year= 2006| isbn= 978-1-55659-239-3 }}
* {{cite book| title=The Book of What Remains| publisher=[[Copper Canyon Press]]| year= 2010| isbn= 978-1-55659-297-3 }}

===Halipot na Usipon===
* {{cite book| title=Flowers for the Broken| url=https://archive.org/details/flowersforbroken0000saen| url-access=registration| publisher=Broken Moon Press| year= 1992| isbn= 978-0-913089-28-6 }}
* {{cite book| title=[[Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club]]| publisher=Cinco Puntos Press| year= 2012| isbn= 9781935955320}}

===Mga Nobela===
* ''Carry Me Like Water'', Hyperion, 1995
* {{cite book| title=The House of Forgetting| publisher= HarperCollins| year= 1997 }}
* {{cite book| title=In Perfect Light| publisher=HarperCollins| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-06-077921-4 }}
**''En el tiempo de la Luz'', Rayo/HarperCollins 2006
* {{cite book| title=Names on a Map| url=https://archive.org/details/namesonmapnovel00saen| url-access=registration| publisher=Harper Perennial| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-06-128569-1 }}

===Mga nobelang pang-hubin===
* {{cite book| title=Sammy and Juliana in Hollywood| url=https://archive.org/details/sammyjulianainho00saen| url-access=registration| publisher=Cinco Puntos Press | year=2004| isbn= 978-0-938317-81-4 }}
* {{cite book| title=He Forgot to Say Goodbye| isbn=978-1-4169-4963-3 | publisher=Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing| date=2008-06-17 }}
* ''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===
* {{cite book| title=A Gift from Papa Diego| publisher=Bt Bound| year= 1999| isbn= 978-0-613-06587-0 }}
* {{cite book| title=Grandma Fina and Her Wonderful Umbrellas| others=Illustrator Geronimo Garcia| publisher=Cinco Puntos Press| year= 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===
*{{cite book| chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gosiIVGQjMEC&q=Benjamin+Alire+Saenz&pg=PA365| chapter=The Unchronicled Death of Your Holy Father; Fences| title=Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature| editor=Dagoberto Gilb| publisher=UNM Press| year= 2008| isbn= 978-0-8263-4126-6 }}
* {{cite book| title=An introduction to poetry| editor1=X. J. Kennedy |editor2=Dana Gioia| publisher=Pearson Longman| year= 2005| 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}}

==Toltolan==
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==Mga pamnluwas na takod==
{{Commons category|Benjamin Alire Sáenz}}
{{Portal|Children and Young Adult Literature}}
*[https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Benjamin-Alire-Saenz/44544494 Benjamin Alire Sáenz] official page at [[Simon & Schuster]], Inc.
*[https://cincopuntos.com/authors/benjamin-alire-saenz/ Benjamin Alire Sáenz] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031051508/https://cincopuntos.com/authors/benjamin-alire-saenz/ |date=2020-10-31 }} official page at [[Cinco Puntos Press]]
* {{LCAuth|n93005827|Benjamin Alire Sáenz|22|}}

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[[Category:Hispanic and Latino American poets]]
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[[Category:Stonewall Book Award winners]]
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[[Category:Stanford University alumni]]
[[Category:University of Iowa alumni]]
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[[Category:University of Texas at El Paso faculty]]
[[Category:Writers from New Mexico]]
[[Category:Novelists from Texas]]
[[Category:American Book Award winners]]
[[Category:20th-century American male writers]]
[[Category:21st-century American male writers]]
[[Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people]]
[[Category:Gay poets]]
Si Benjamin Alire Sáenz (namundag Agosto 16, 1954) sarong Amerikanong pararawit, nobelista, asin parasurat nin mga librong pan-aki.

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
 
 
 
 
 

Halipot na Usipon
 
 

Mga Nobela
 Carry Me Like Water, Hyperion, 1995
 
 
En el tiempo de la Luz, Rayo/HarperCollins 2006
 

Mga nobelang pang-hubin
 
 
 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 Perfect Season for Dreaming, Cinco Puntos Press 2008.
 The Dog Who Loved Tortillas, Cinco Puntos Press 2009

Mga Antolohiya

 
 "To the Desert," "Resurrections," Twentieth Century American Poetry (2004), edited by Dana Gioia, McGraw Hill 

Toltolan

Mga pamnluwas na takod

Benjamin Alire Sáenz official page at Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz  official page at Cinco Puntos Press
 

Category:1954 births
Category:Living people
Category:20th-century American novelists
Category:20th-century American poets
Category:20th-century American short story writers
Category:21st-century American novelists
Category:21st-century American poets
Category:21st-century American short story writers
Category:American children's writers
Category:American writers of young adult literature
Category:American male novelists
Category:American male poets
Category:American male short story writers
Category:American writers of Mexican descent
Category:American gay writers
Category:Hispanic and Latino American novelists
Category:Hispanic and Latino American poets
Category:Lambda Literary Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature winners
Category:Lambda Literary Award for Gay Fiction winners
Category:Stonewall Book Award winners
Category:LGBTQ Hispanic and Latino American people
Category:American LGBTQ novelists
Category:American LGBTQ poets
Category:LGBTQ people from New Mexico
Category:PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners
Category:People from Doña Ana County, New Mexico
Category:Poets from Texas
Category:Poets from New Mexico
Category:Stanford University alumni
Category:University of Iowa alumni
Category:University of Texas at El Paso alumni
Category:University of Texas at El Paso faculty
Category:Writers from New Mexico
Category:Novelists from Texas
Category:American Book Award winners
Category:20th-century American male writers
Category:21st-century American male writers
Category:21st-century American LGBTQ people
Category:Gay poets