José Emilio Pacheco City and Nature Award
The University of Guadalajara, through a project created by the Environmental Sciences Museum as part of the University’s Cultural Center, and with the support of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, has established the José Emilio Pacheco City and Nature Award. The prize, which will be given for the first time this year, will be dedicated to poetry. The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will be given a purse of US $10,000. The award is dedicated to poet José Emilio Pacheco, whose work explores the duality between cities and nature.
National Booksellers Award
Founded by the National Institute for the Professional Development of Booksellers, and in collaboration with the Guadalajara International Book Fair, this award is granted to aid and encourage Mexican booksellers in continuing their education and becoming more competitive. The winner will be given $200,000 pesos to use for their project.
American Indigenous Literature Award
Created by the University of Guadalajara, and with the collaboration of the National Institute for Indigenous Languages, the Culture Ministry, the National Commission for the Development of the Indigenous Cultures and Jalisco’s Department of Education, the American Indigenous Literature Award is granted to enrich, protect and promote the legacy and richness of Mexico’s indigenous peoples through literature in all its forms, and to and acknowledge and further develop the careers and works of indigenous authors. The award, which carries a purse of US $25,000, will be given for the fourth time at the 2016 FIL Guadalajara.
SM Ibero-American Award for Literature for Children and Young People
The SM Ibero-American Award for Literature for Children and Young People was implemented in 2005, the year of Ibero-American literature, with the goal of promoting literature for children and young people throughout Ibero-America. The award is given out each year during the Guadalajara International Book Fair to recognize writers of literature for children and young people and carries a purse of US $30,000.
7th Ibero-American Illustration Catalog
With the goal of creating a network that helps to encourage the work of illustrators of books for children and young people in Ibero-America, the SM Foundation, El Ilustradero and the FIL Guadalajara invites illustrators to submit their work to be included in the 7th Annual Ibero-American Illustration Catalog. The 45 works selected will be displayed in an exposition at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. In addition, illustrators will have the opportunity to work on an illustrated book with Ediciones SM and the winner will be given US $5,000. You can find more information at: www.iberoamericailustra.com
Americas Award
The Americas Award, instituted in 2011, is given by the Festival de la Palabra together with the Americas Foundation of Puerto Rico. The goal of the award is to place a spotlight on authors with works of great literary value, but which tend to be overlooked in awards circuits.
The award, which carries a US $25,000 purse, is a distinction given to writers chosen by a judging panel consisting of seven members of the Ibero-Latin American literary community. The award’s organizers define writer in its broadest sense, allowing essayists, novelists, critics and journalists who are familiar with today’s literary panorama in Ibero-America, the Caribbean and their Diasporas, to participate.
Winners of the Americas Award include Arturo Fontaine Talavera from Chile (2011), Eduardo Berti from Argentina (2012), Juan López Bauzá from Puerto Rico (2013) and Claudia Salazar Jiménez from Peru (2014).
New Voices Award
The New Voices Award, instituted in 2012 and accompanied by a US $5,000 purse, is an important distinction given out at Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra. The Writer’s Committee grants the award to a Puerto Rican author worthy of international recognition who is beginning their career in the world of literature.
Previous winners of the award include Carlos Vázquez (2014), Janette Becerra (2013) and Ángel Antonio Ruíz Laboy (2012).
The Festival de la Palabra says that the award recipients are authors “whose work reflects a superior creative talent, both in terms of style and thematic dialog within the literary world.” It is given among peers to authors with no more than four published works who have received positive, consistent critical acclaim, and show a commitment to the development of Puerto Rican literature in the country and abroad.
LIPP Award
In fulfilling its mission to advocate Spanish-language literature and the recognition of its authors, the LIPP La Brasserie México is accepting nominations for publishers who regularly publish works of fiction for the 5th Annual LIPP Literature Award. Its French equivalent, the Le Prix Cazes Brasserie Lipp, was instituted in 1935 and is considered the most important literary award granted in Paris during the spring. The winning author will receive a cash prize of MXN $100,000, a trip to Paris and dinner at the French LIPP. All Spanish-language novel manuscripts presented by publishers demonstrating that they publish fiction are eligible to participate.
FIL Program
FIL 2018 Program
Libros al Gusto
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Libros al Gusto
Beer: history and tradition in Mexico
Beer is one of the main components of the Mexican table, the perfect companion to any meal. Moreover, behind every beer there are many stories.
In the voice of Abigail Ramos we will know not only the best ways to taste beer, but everything that’s behind the production of this beverage: ingredients, temperatures, smells, colors, flavors… And how to achieve the preservation of these variants through time in the search of a memorable beer.
Participant: Pablo Elizalde
Pablo Elizalde
I was born on August 20, 1990 in Mexico City, where I lived and grew the first 6 years of my life.
In '96 I moved with my family where I had my first close experience with beer. My parents settled in a house near the Cervecería Modelo de Guadalajara, where their banner was Estrella Beer and I constantly perceived the aroma of the sweet must that the production emitted. From that moment I was curious about beer.
My first real experience with beer, apart from being a habitual consumer of this product since I reached the age of majority, was when I joined Grupo Modelo. I started in a program of young talents, where we went through all areas of the company. Without a doubt the moment I enjoyed the most was the two months I was in training at the Cervecería Modelo de Zacatecas, the largest brewery in the world.
In the brewery they showed us the process of brewing, from the arrival of the barley to the dispatch of the trucks with the finished product, and that was where I understood that beer is not just another product. The passion with which it is elaborated and the complexity of its elaboration left me impressed. The beer masters taught us about the styles of beer, tasting and pairing and discovered a world that goes beyond light and dark beer.
Throughout my career in Modelo, I have received numerous certifications of beer knowledge, I have been in more than 30 tastings and pairings with different beers and foods and I have learned that beer is a fundamental element for the history of the human being.
Within my current functions, it is up to me to understand as much as possible the brewing processes and I live every day with the most incredible experts and passionate about beer. I never stop learning.
Organiza: Editorial Museo Citadino
Saturday November 24
17:00 a 17:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Grano de sal y otros cristales
In Grano de sal y otros cristales coexists a singular cupboard: curious reflections about the Mexican cuisine, as well as its similarities and contrasts with the French one, this is how Adolfo Castañón writes his entertaining gastronomic chronicles in his passage through the country that witnessed the birth of Montesquieu. With a pinch of Neruda's taste, we will find pleasant homages to various foods, dishes and traditions around the stove.
Participant: Carmen López Portillo Romano
Carmen López Portillo Romano
She is Mexican, mother and happy grandmother, sorjuanista. She obtained a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and a master's degree in Latin American history from the Sorbonne University. She is a member, among other associations, of the Consultative Council for the Rescue of the Historical Center, of the Editorial Committee of Politics, Sociology and Law of the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), and is a founding member of the Mexican Society of Bibliophiles. She is also part of the group of researchers convened by the University of California (UC-Mexicanistas), and the International Women's Forum (IWF). Since 2012 she is a member of the Board of Directors of UNIVERSIA-Mexico. In 2016 she was a member of the Consultative Council for the Development of Mediation of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City and in December of that same year she was voted unanimously to be part of the Social Commitment for the Quality of Education. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Tourism.
In March 2009, she received the Institutional Merit Medal of the Festival de México in the Historic Center, and in November of that same year the Government of the Federal District awarded her the Diploma of Honor in the Bicentennial, for the work done in favor of the rescue of the Historical Center. In October 2011, the Women's Institute distinguished her with the Omecíhuatl Medal for her work in favor of women. In October 2016, she was distinguished with the National Tourism Education Award, granted by the Mexican Association of Higher Education Centers in Tourism and Gastronomy. In November of the same year, she was recognized by the International Association of Researchers for her academic trajectory and leadership. In June 2017, her alma mater awarded her the recognition "Distinguished UAM Graduate" for her outstanding merits in the academic, cultural, humanistic and for her transcendent contribution in the development of the University and the country.
She has participated in national and international congresses related to culture, history, gastronomy, gender studies and education, and has given lectures in Mexico and abroad on different topics, among which Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz stands out. Since 2014, she has participated in the International Meeting of Rectors of Universia, as well as in the meetings of the American Council on Higher Education held in the United States.
Organiza: Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana
Saturday November 24
19:00 a 19:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Participant: Enrique Florescano
Enrique Florescano
Enrique Florescano was born in Coscomatepec, Veracruz, on July 8, 1937. He went to Xalapa to study law and then chose history as a vocation at the Universidad Veracruzana. He has a master's degree in universal history from El Colegio de México, and a doctorate in history from the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has been a professor in numerous institutions, such as El Colegio de México, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cambridge University, Getty Center for the Humanities and Yale University.
His works include Essays on the history of epidemics in Mexico (1980), El mito de Quetzalcóatl (1993), Memoria indígena (1999), Memoria mexicana, essays on the reconstruction of the past (2000), Quetzalcoatl and the founding myths of Mesoamerica (2004), How is a god made? (2016). He has been distinguished with the National Social Sciences Prize of the Academy of Scientific Research, today the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1976); the Academic Palms (1982) and L'Ordre National du Mérite (1985) by France; the National Prize of Sciences and Arts in the area of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy (1996) of Mexico, and was named Emeritus Researcher of the National System of Researchers (2006). In 2016, FIL Guadalajara paid him a well-deserved tribute for the contributions of his work to Mexican history.
Other activities involving the participant:
Award
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara
Saturday November 24
18:00 a 18:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Kitchen of the women soldiers in Sayula
Sayula is one of the 125 municipalities that make up the state of Jalisco; it is recognized for its commercial, artisan, religious and cultural importance, not to mention its gastronomy that has given it the reputation of having women who know how to cook.
Moreover, its strategic location on the railway route that ran from Guadalajara to Colima detonated the trade and served as a military meeting center for Pancho Villa himself.
Because of its beautiful mountains, it became an area of forced labor for military contingents. Activity that was as necessary and important as the very survival of the town; for that reason, the soldiers, “soldaderas” (women soldiers) and “adelitas” witnessed the birth of a new way of life and food with its own traits.
Participant: Maru Toledo
Maru Toledo
With the aim of safeguarding the oral and gastronomic traditions focused on Jalisco, Mexico, Maru Toledo has dedicated her professional life to field research, teaching, writing and publishing 21 cookbooks, among which "Before time alcance ", a compilation of ancient recipes and guide to local ingredients since pre-Hispanic times.
For her research, in 2017 she won the Merit Medal "Ricardo Muñoz Zurita", and in the prestigious Gourmet Awards she was awarded in the category of "Traditional Cook" in the same year.
In 2011, she founded the concept of Mujeres del Maíz, which promotes the ancient culinary culture and gastronomic tourism. In the simple patio of her house she receives, with previous reservation, groups, chefs and amateurs to offer a trip to the past, through the ancestral flavors.
Other activities involving the participant:
Tachihual bread and the “cesion de vara”
Organiza: Mujeres del Maíz
Sunday November 25
16:00 a 16:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Gourmet Station
The general purpose of the educational program of the University Center of the Coast is to train professionals with high theoretical, practical and ethical values of the culinary arts and sciences, professionally prepared with global standards whose application generates quality in research, administration, production, service and innovation for the benefit of the gastronomic sector, nationally and internationally.
Participant: Luis del Sordo García
Luis del Sordo García
Chef with more than 25 years of work in Mexico and abroad. With important openings in the areas of A & B, strategic planning, supply chain, banquets and events. He has collaborated in important gastronomy projects as founder of the culinary career at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, participant in the television program La Historia Sienta a la Mesa in 2012, he was the founding Chef of the Zafiro restaurant at the UCSJ in 2008, He was top Chef of the Air Kitchen (Lufthansa, Iberia, American Airlines, KLM, Aeromexico) in 2002-2004, has been a jury of several awards such as: Iron Chef Toks in 2010/2011, Jury in the Season of the Claustro in 2010 , judge in the contest of the young Chef of Ambrosia in 2002-2003, judge of the Golden Sarten, les Toches Blanches in 1995.
Winner of several important recognitions such as: Best Professor of Gastronomy University of the Cloister of Sor Juana in 2000-2004, Winner in U.S. Meat Export Federation in 2000, Best Chef of the Year at Hotel Presidente Intercontinental in 1999, appeared in the magazine Mexican Leaders in 2012.
He has worked for important restaurants such as Westin, Camino Real, Princess Cuises "Love Boat", and important establishments such as Spago. He currently works for The Palm as Director of Regional Operations.
Organiza: Centro Universitario de la Costa
Sunday November 25
19:00 a 19:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
The taste of Colima
In Colima there is a virgin gastronomy, because the particular way of feeding in this terroir is almost intact in each house. However, urban growth, along with the arrival of external influences and ignorance about our own origins are a latent threat that could take us away from our roots.
Faced with the risk of losing our culinary culture, we have decided to change course. After this research, we know that we are not rescuing food; food is rescuing us.
This conversation begins with a trip through the ingredients, the flavors, the recipes, the places and the people that makes Colima a gastronomic destination to discover.
Participants: Nico Mejía, Luza Alvarado, Carlos Ramírez Vuelvas
Nico Mejía
Mejía (Colima) is a loving character to his roots, cook, teacher and researcher of colimota cuisine.
Graduated from the Culinary Art School in Tijuana, author of the book "Algas edibles de Baja California" 2016, co-author of the cookbook "Cocineros Mexicanos" 2017, author of the book "Colima a great gastronomic journey" 2018.
Today he is the maximum representative of the culinary Colimense and director of the Colima gastronomic inclusive promotion platform "Colima sabe".
He has represented the cuisine of Colima more than twenty times throughout Mexico. He has also presented the cuisine of Colima abroad in Paris, France, Peru and Chile.
Teacher at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara teaching "Mexican cuisine". He teaches the only master's degree in cooking at Colima in the Master's Degree in Mexican Cooking at the Culinary Art School.
He was the creative chef of the Restaurant Cortez in Guadalajara where he was considered among the "3 to eat" in Guadalajara for the New York Magazine 2015. NOMINATED as "best new restaurant" 2014 and WINNER as "the best casual dinning" 2015 of Mexico in the Gourmet awards by Travel and Leisure magazine
He was a driver and Chef Viajero of the "Mexican cooks" program for Azteca 13 in 2017.
Luza Alvarado
Writer, editor and translator. She studied the Bachelor of Science in Culture at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, and French Language and Civilization at the University of La Sorbonne. She studied the Diploma in Literary Creation at the General Society of Writers of Mexico and, as a FONCA fellow, the Master's Degree in Literature at the University of Chile. Her texts have appeared in magazines such as Mexico Desconocido, El Gourmet, Tierra Adentro, El Fanzine and Chilango. As an editor, she has collaborated in print and digital media, international content agencies, as well as Penguin Random House and Grupo Planeta. In 2018 she published La Realidad, her first book of poems, under the Textofilia seal, and edited the first volume of Colima. A great gastronomic journey, by chef Nico Mejía.
Carlos Ramírez Vuelvas
Bachelor of Arts and Journalism from the University of Colima, Master in Mexican Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Doctor of Latin American Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has written the poetry book: Brazo de sol (Secretariat of culture of colima, 2001), Cuadernos de la lengua y el viento (Plan C Editores, 2006), co-authored with Avelino Gómez Guzmán; House of three courtyards (PuertaAbierta Editores, 2012), Los Contradiciones (IMAC / CONACULTA, 2015) and Summer has arrived home (Valparaíso, 2015). Some of his poems appear in anthologies, such as: A wider orb. 40 young poets from Mexico (UNAM, 2005), The kinky gold. Living Poetry of Mexico (BUAP, 2007) and General Anthology of Mexican poetry (Oceano, 2015), among others.
He is editor of the books of the writer Balbino Dávalos: London fogs and other poems (UNAM, 2006), Muses of France (U. de C., 2007), Digressions of a distant past. Memories (U. de C., 2010) and Anthology. I usually write my verses (Universidad de Colima, 2015). He is also the author of the studies: Index of cultural magazines of the 20th century. Mexico City (UNAM, 2007) in co-authorship with Fernando Curiel and Antonio Sierra García; Regino Hernández Llergo interview with Pancho Villa (Observatory of University Innovations, 2009), Notes for the study of the history of written culture in Colima (Historical Archive of the Municipality of Colima), The faces of the hero in the cave (Study Center Literarios, 2009), Full zone (Screens and avenues) (CONACULTA, 2010), Mexican drugs (Language of Rag, 2010), Imaginary and social and cultural representations in transition (2014), co-authored with Aideé Arellano Ceballos, and La patria imagined of the Spanish language. The foundation of literary Mexico in the finsecular Madrid (1868-1914) (2015).
In addition to participating in various national and international conferences, he has written more than a dozen chapters for specialized books in Latin American and Mexican literature, particularly in modernism and modernity. On the same subjects, he has published articles in specialized journals, such as Valenciana, Relaciones, Interpretextos, Journal of hispanic modernism and Liberia, among others.
He has received the State Prize of Poetry (2001), Honorable Mention in the Poetry Prize Point of Departure (2004), State Prize of Youth (2004), Mention Homnorífica by Thesis of the Master in Mexican Literature by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2006), Caja Madrid International Essay Award (2011), Cum Lauden for Postgraduate Thesis in Spanish-American Literature by the Complutense University of Madrid (2012) and National Poetry Prize Tijuana (2014); as well as the scholarships of the State Fund for Culture and the Arts (2000-2001) and the Program for the Improvement of Teachers (2009-2012). He has been academic coordinator of the degree in Hispanic American Literature (2007), deputy director (2008-2009) and director of the Faculty of Letters and Communication of the University of Colima (2011-2015). In addition, he served as general director of Radio Universidad.
Organiza: Secretaría de Cultura del Estado de Colima
Sunday November 25
15:00 a 15:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Smoke women, the Totonac cuisine
With the purpose that the traditional cuisine of Veracruz, especially the Totonac, should be recognized in all its dimensions, these mujeres de humo (smoke women), heirs of millenarian gastronomic knowledge, preserve their most emblematic recipes.
Participant: Jacinto Chacha Antele
Organiza: Educal
Sunday November 25
17:00 a 17:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Almanac of national cuisine
Participant: Claudio Poblete Ritschel
Claudio Poblete Ritschel
Trained professionally as a Bachelor of Communication Sciences and with sommelier studies in La Rioja, Spain, Claudio Poblete Ritschel has developed his career in the ranks of journalism, culinary research and culinary criticism, in which he has more than two decades from experience.
He is a member of advisory councils of national and international congresses, distinctions and festivals such as: Food Mexico, Mesmer, Chef of the Year Mexico, Culinary Expo Monterrey, Food and Wine Ixtapa, The Knowledge of Taste Oaxaca, Bohemian Distinction and Travel Gourmet Awards & Leisure.
He is the gastronomic coordinator of the Ensenada Gastronómica, Sonora astronómica, COME Jalisco, Kooben Yucatán and Culinary Crafts congresses in Mexico City; judge of the competitions: Chef of the Year Mexico, National Contest of Sommeliers, Mexico Selection of the World Contest of Brussels and the Young Mexican Chef.
In 2011 he was named Master of Mexican Cuisine by the Conservatory of Mexican Gastronomic Culture.
During 2012 he was recognized as journalist of the year by the Vatel Club of Mexico, thanks to the work at the head of his magazine, Culinaria Mexicana, which has also been nominated twice as the best regional cuisine portal in the world by the prestigious magazine Saveur from United States.
He is the founder of Grupo Culinaria Mexicana, a company that provides professional services in the field of the Hospitality Industry.
Organiza: Grupo Culinaria Mexicana
Sunday November 25
18:00 a 18:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
The sisters Sofia and Blanca Campollo will tell us about the regions of Mexico, the general cuisine of each one of them and how it influences the sauces.
Gastronomy makes Mexico one of the mother kitchens of the world since it is a mixture of different variables of each region and how it unites us as a country.
Participants: Sofía Campollo , Blanca Campollo
Tuesday November 27
19:00 a 19:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Chili, ancestral fruit
Chili has been one of the essential ingredients in Mexican cuisine since pre-Hispanic times. The capability of this seed to transform into other varieties and adapt to new environments, the various degrees of spiciness, medicinal properties and the historical, cultural and ritual background that has been created around the chili are some of the issues that motivate this chat.
Participant: Otto Schöndube Baumbach
Organiza: Artes de México
Tuesday November 27
18:00 a 18:50
Foro de Libros al Gusto,