Pluma Fronteriza: El Paso Chicano and Latino Writers

Pluma Fronteriza: El Paso Chicano and Latino Writers For 10 years, Pluma Fronteriza has publish a newsletter on Chicano and Latino writers from El Paso/Cd.

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"Chicano writers from El Paso are the most progressive, open-minded, far-reaching, and inclusive writers of them all."
-Octavio Romano

07/30/2026

“Ben was irrepressibly hopeful of the human spirit,” longtime friend Ruben Garcia said about Sáenz, an award-winning author whose “Aristotle and Dante” young adult novel was adapted into a movie in 2023.

07/30/2026

Award-winning Borderland author Benjamin Alire Saenz died Tuesday, July 28, after a lengthy illness.

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07/30/2026

Lalo Delgado passed way on this day in 2004.

07/30/2026
07/30/2026

Renowned El Paso author Benjamin Alire Sáenz – whose life’s chapters saw him as a farmboy, a priest, a teacher and a writer – died Tuesday night after a lengthy illness. He was 71. Sáenz was awarded the prestigious PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his collection of short stories, “Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club,” and saw his young adult novel “Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe,” adapted into a movie. https://elpasomatters.org/2026/07/28/benjamin-alire-saenz-el-paso-author-dies-kentucky-club-aristotle-and-dante/

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