Exploring queer themes and Chicano life, he became a bard of the U.S.-Mexico border

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Benjamin Alire Sáenz, who has died at 71, was the first Latino to win the PEN/Faulkner. His YA novel “Aristotle and Dante” brought him international fame.

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