Historial

 

Pages from the World

 

The world is full of stories. Every day in every corner of the world, stories are told, created, written, listened to, remembered. They are the inexhaustible imaginary from the past and present of peoples, cultures and individuals. And all form part of a book whose pages reflect the diversity, wisdom, imagination, tradition, memory, hopes and sorrows, colors and flavors from every latitude.

Continuing a tradition that began in 2005 with Continents of Words (Continentes de la Palabra), a literary program that featured writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Etgar Keret, Martin Amis and Goran Petrović, among others, Pages From the World is the bridge the Guadalajara International Book Fair has built for non-Hispanic literature. During its first two editions, the public was able to enjoy readings and talks with Kiran Desai (India/USA), Yuri Andrujovich (Ukraine), José Luís Peixoto (Portugal), Aminatta Forna (Sierra Leone/UK), Ribah Alameddine (Lebannon/USA), and Vldimir Sorokin (Russia).

In 2011, during the 25th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the invitation is open to once again dwell into the stories and melodies of apparently far away worlds.

 

In the Ring! Eight Mexican Talents

 

Mexico has a rich and diverse literary tradition, written from the northern border to the far south. In the Ring! Eight Mexican Talents presents a selection of a new generation of writers who are beginning to forge their own paths in Mexican literature, with the aim of giving visibility to their work in the international publishing sphere and bringing it closer to readers.

Without any pretension of establishing a canon, the program offers an introduction to the work of eight writers, with a selection that seeks to balance gender representation and geographic diversity.

The first edition of In the Ring! brought together Laura Baeza (Campeche), Liliana Pedroza (Chihuahua), Abril Posas (Jalisco), Gabriel Rodríguez Liceaga (Mexico City), Josué Sánchez, Mariel Iribe (Veracruz), Alejandro Vázquez Ortiz (Nuevo León), and Darío Zalapa (Michoacán), who shared their writing processes and creative rituals with the audience.

The second edition featured Lola Ancira (Querétaro), Maritza M. Buendía (Zacatecas), Jorge Comensal (Mexico City), Penélope Córdova (Guanajuato), Franco Félix (Sonora), Jorge Alberto Pérez (Jalisco), Aniela Rodríguez (Chihuahua), and Rafael Villegas (Nayarit).

The third meeting included the participation of Elisa Díaz Castelo (Mexico City), Natalia Trigo (Puebla), Alaíde Ventura (Veracruz), Josué Camacho (Baja California), Habacuc Antonio de Rosario (Tamaulipas), Hiram Ruvalcaba (Jalisco), and Alejandro von Düben (Jalisco).

 

We are Booktubers

 

With the aim of offering a space dedicated to one of the fastest-growing communities on social media in recent years, the booktuber community, the Guadalajara International Book Fair created this gathering to bring together young readers who share reviews and opinions of their most recent readings with a broad and diverse audience through platforms such as YouTube. 

 

Fahrenheit 451

 

Fahrenheit 451 is the story of a dark and horrifying future. Guy Montag, the protagonist, belongs to a brigade of firefighters whose mission, paradoxically, is not to extinguish fires but to start them in order to burn books. In Montag’s country, reading is strictly forbidden. Reading forces people to think, reading prevents them from being naïvely happy, and in that future society, happiness is mandatory.

This activation, based on this classic of world literature, aimed to intervene in the Vía Recreativa by recreating a passage from Ray Bradbury’s novel, as a tribute to the celebrated work and, at the same time, as an act of reading promotion within the framework of Guadalajara World Book Capital.

It took place on September 11, 18, and 25, 2022. Over three Sundays in September, visitors to the Vía Recreactiva who listened to the narration of each of the three parts of the book and collected the corresponding identifiers received a free copy of the novel, courtesy of the FIL.

Text adaptation: Jorge Fábregas. Actors: Arantxa Fernanda Palafox Orozco, Alberto Pacheco Espejel, Emmanuel Everardo Orozco Rizo, Sofía Florido Rodríguez, Bruno Alejandro de la Cruz Rivera, Andrea Yamileth Baltazar Martínez, Hazel Valeria González Díaz, Salvador Alejandro Vázquez García, Andrea de Anda Ruiz, Diego Herrera González, Karla Janet Arana González, José Pablo Díaz, Tania Saraí Fonce Díaz, Mareli Rosas Hernández, Martha Teresa Martínez González, Mariana Jazmín Pérez García, José Daniel Pérez Aceves and Lourdes Paulina Curiel Campos. Direction and production: Daniela Yoffe Zonana. Direction: Gabriela Pescador. Production: Virginia Guardado. Production support: Alba Ruelas, Salvador de León y Luisa Guzmán. Communication: Elisa Larrinaga. Costume design: Danitza Castañeda.

 

One Hundred Voices from Ibero-America: 35 Years of the FIL

 

Coinciding with Guadalajara’s designation as World Book Capital 2022, and as a gift from the University of Guadalajara to readers on World Book Day, you can now download free of charge the book One Hundred Voices from Ibero-America: 35 Years of the FIL (University of Guadalajara Press, 2021), by photographer Maj Lindström and journalist Vanesa Robles. The volume brings together portraits and texts featuring 50 male writers and 50 female writers from 18 Ibero-American countries.

 

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