In this month's Queer Book Club Podcast, Diva and Auggie speak with Author Benjamin Alire Saenz about his coming out story, work and future projects he is currently writing in this vulnerable yet quirky podcast.
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After leaving the Catholic Priesthood, he waited table in Houston, and saved enough money to return to school and pursue a writing career, Benjamin Alire Saenz, award winning poet, teacher and author received a Master’s in Creative Writing at the University of Texas at El Paso, and won a fellowship at the University of Iowa. Books he wrote Carry Me Like Water and He Forgot to Say Goodbye In 2013, he became the first Latino and the first Texan ever to receive the PEN Faulkner Award for fiction for his collection of short stories, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. His banned young adult novel, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe which became an international success, translated into twenty-four languages.
Ten years after its first publication, it landed on the New York Times Bestseller List. The sequel to the first Ari and Dante Book, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World, published at the end of 2021, was on the New York Times Bestseller list for eleven weeks debuting at Number one. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, the movie, will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this September and will be released in theaters nationwide. Both novels have been successful audio books read by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the famed writer/director of the Broadway sensation, Hamilton.
Benjamin's Books:
www.benjaminsaenz.com/bens-books
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