Poet Benjamin Alire Saenz

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Benjamin Alire Saenz

Living place: New Mexico

Birthday: 16-8-1954 (70 years old)

Population of US 1954: 163,025,854

Global rank: #72708

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Who is Poet Benjamin Alire Saenz?
Latino-American poet, children's author, and novelist known for The Calendar of Dust and Carry Me Like Water, among other works. He has received both the American Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award.
He came out as gay at the age of fifty-four, at this point, already beginning to explore lesbian, gay, (LGBT) Many bisexual and transsexual themes in his writing .
 
 

Young / Before famous

He attended St. Thomas Seminary in Colorado and served as a chaplain in El Paso, Texas before leaving the priesthood to study creative writing.

Family life info

He was raised as the fourth of seven children and raised on a New Mexico ranch.

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His novel Tien Me Like Water includes elements of magical realism, a widespread Latin American literary tradition of writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

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When was Poet Benjamin Alire Saenz born?
Benjamin Alire Saenz birthday 16-8-1954 (at the age of 70).
Where is Poet Benjamin Alire Saenz's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Benjamin Alire Saenz was born in New Mexico, . is a Poet, whose Zodiac is Leo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Horse. Benjamin Alire Saenz's global rank is 72708 and whose rank is 574 in list of famous Poet. Population of US in 1954 is about 163,025,854 persons.
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Events in 1954 and 16-8

Events in US in the birth year of Benjamin Alire Saenz

  • Army v. McCarthy inquiry (Apr. 22–June 17); Senate votes in Dec. to condemn Sen. McCarthy for misconduct.
  • In Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka the Supreme Court unanimously bans racial segregation in public schools (May 17).

Birthday Benjamin Alire Saenz (16-8) in history

  • Day 16-8 year 1777: American forces won the Battle of Bennington, Vermont.
  • Day 16-8 year 1829: The original Siamese twins, Eng and Chang, arrived in Boston.
  • Day 16-8 year 1948: Baseball legend Babe Ruth died in New York City at age 53.
  • Day 16-8 year 1960: Cyprus, the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, became an independent republic.
  • Day 16-8 year 1962: Algeria was admitted to the Arab League.
  • Day 16-8 year 1977: Elvis Presley died at Graceland, his Memphis,Tenn., home, from heart failure at age 42.
  • Day 16-8 year 2003: Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin died.
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