Ernesto Cisneros talks about becoming an author and winning the Pura Belpré award
Ernesto Cisneros won the 2021 Pura Belpré Children’s Author award with his debut novel “Efrén Divided.”
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Ernesto Cisneros suspected he was in trouble when his editor reached out to set up a meeting last week. He hadn’t completed the edits to his second book yet. When he logged in and saw about 10 people in the meeting, he thought it might have been an author intervention.
Instead he was notified — a day before it was publicly announced — that he won the Pura Belpré Children’s Author award with his debut novel “