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Early Life and Education
Early Life and Education
Later Life and Work
Later Life and Work
Most popular Sáenz novel, published in 2012. The recipient of 6 awards including the Stonewall Book Award in 2013.
Sequel to previously named novel, published in 2021. Recipient of Audie Award in 2022, narrated by Lin Manual Miranda.
Published in 2009, this novel was finalist for the PEN USA Literary Award and named one of the YALSA Top Ten Best Fiction for Young Adults.
Published in 2017, this standalone was nominated for the 2017 Goodreads Choice Award for Young Adult Fiction and was named a CCBC Choice in 2018.
"Faulkner said to be a writer, you have to abandon all fears,” Sáenz says somberly, referring to the Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner. “You have to have courage; and you have to write things that don’t make you feel good.”
Published in 2012,
Awards and Recognition
Awards and Recognition
"That means sometimes writing about the anger that resides within you and all the imperfections. All my characters are so fragile and wounded and hurt and angry, and struggle to be decent when all the world has tried to make them hard and indecent.” - Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Influence of Personal Life in Novels
Influence of Personal Life in Novels
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