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Video: Author Benjamin Alire Sáenz revisits Juarez bar that inspired his PEN/Faulkner award-winning book

Mar 21, 2013, 5:07 PM 0

LatinaLista — When it was announced that Benjamin Alire Sáenz had won the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his book “Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club,” more than a few people couldn’t understand why a club…

Books, Culture

First Latino to win prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction is a homeboy from the U.S.-Mexico border

Mar 20, 2013, 3:07 PM 1

LatinaLista — In a prestigious literary competition where more than 350 novels and short-story collections by American authors published in the U.S. in 2012 were evaluated by a three-judge panel, a 58-year-old former priest walked away with the $15,000…