![]() ![]() Ari has two older sisters, Cecilia and Sylvia, and one older brother, Bernardo, who is never spoken of, but we know is in prison. Printz Award, and Pura Belpré Award.Ī Review of Benjamin Alire Sáenz's Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Miguel SotoĪristotle Mendoza, or Ari, is a Mexican-American fifteen-year-old boy, living in El Paso, Texas in 1987, who serves as our narrator. ![]() For Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, Benjamin Alire Sáenz is the recipient of, the Stonewall Book Award, Mike Morgan & Larry Romans Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award, Michael L. Latino Literature Today, which is taught in many U.S. His essay, “Exile,” about living in El Paso, with the increasing, overwhelming authority coming from the United States’ border control, is featured in the anthology, U.S. Benjamin Alire Sáenz is also the author of, Elegies in Blue, his third collection of poems, and Carry Me Like Water (1995), The House of Forgetting (1997), In Perfect Light (2008), and Names on a Map (2008). His second collection of poems, Dark and Perfect Angels, won a Southwest Book award in 1992. His first book of poems, Calendar Dust, was awarded an American Book Award in 1991. Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford University. In 1992, he was awarded the Lannan Literary Fellowship. Benjamin Alire Sáenz is an American novelist and poet. ![]()
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