But then he created Aristotle and Dante, and his life took a turn. That book was supposed to mark the pinnacle of his career, Sáenz says. It’s in this borderland that Sáenz, a prolific writer and winner of the 2013 PEN Faulkner Award for the book Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club, has found inspiration in a career that spans more than three decades. Like a true border resident, he’s wired in a way that his body and spirit hardly notice the international boundary line, or have a need for it. “And you know what? I haven’t changed one bit,” he answers, bursting into his signature laugh that fills the room and sets his dogs, Chuy and Rain, into spasms of yelping and running in circles.īorn and raised in a small farming town near Las Cruces, N.M., Sáenz now calls El Paso and Ciudad Juárez home.
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