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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
Important:
The call closed the past June 17th
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.
Important:
The call closed the past July 12th 
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.
Juan Carlos Quezadas
Karime Cardona Cury
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 and the FIL Guadalajara invites illustrators to submit their work to be included in the 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
Important:
The call closed the past April 25th
Cuba
Organized by
Universidad de Guadalajara, Coordinación General de Extensión, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Coordinación de Promoción y Difusión Cultural, Instituto Cubano de la Música.
Writers
Eliades Acosta, Federico Álvarez, Arturo Arango, Nara Araujo, Jorge Luis Arcos, Sigfredo Ariel, Antón Arrufat, Aída Bahr, Miguel Barnet, Luisa Campuzano, Víctor Casaus, Norberto Codina, Jesús David Curbelo, Daniel Chavarría, Adelaida de Juan, Alexis Díaz Pimienta, Abelardo Estorino, Roberto Fernández Retamar, Pablo Armando Fernández, Ambrosio Fornet, Jorge Fornet, Fina García Marruz, Daniel García Santos, Alberto Garrandés, Pablo González Casanova, Reinaldo González, Rolando González, Alberto Guerra, Armando Hart Dávalos, Eduardo Heras León, Nicolás Hernández Guillén, Rafael Hernández, Alfonso Herrera Franyutti, Jaime Labastida, Eusebio Leal Spengler, Waldo Leyva Portal, Aralia López González, Francisco López Sacha, César López, Carlos Martí, Margarita Mateo, Miguel Mejides, Mayra Montero, Edel Morales, Nancy Morejón, Desiderio Navarro, Carilda Oliver Labra, Luis Ortega, Lisandro Otero, Orlando Luis Pardo, Senel Paz, Pedro Pérez Sarduy, Omar Pérez, Abel Prieto, Sonia Rivera, Rogelio Riverón, Enrique Sainz, Iroel Sánchez, Ernesto Santana, Enrique Ubieta, Nelson Valdés, Amir Valle, Guillermo Vidal, Cintio Vitier.
Esplanade
Ballet Nacional de Cuba; Concert of the Cuba National Symphony, conductor Leo Brouwer, special guest Silvio Rodrí Céésar Portillo de la Luz, Marta Valdés, Vicente Garrido; Ballet Tropicana; Juan Formell y los Van Van; Isaac Delgado y su grupo; Eliades Ochoa y El Cuarteto Patria; SÃntesis y Amaury Pérez.
Exhibitions
Cuba Pavilion, Waldo Saavedra; Mural of the fairgrounds by participating artists: Eduardo Roca Salazar (Choco), Rolando Estévez, José Omar Torres, Carlos García de la Nuez, Flavio Garciandía and Luis Miguel Valdé Escuela de La Habana, tradición y modernidad; Diarias Impermanencias; Installation by Alexis Leyva (Kcho); Cuban Film Posters; Una fotografía, dos fotografías, La épica revolucionaria en Cuba (Photography); Recent Painting, Graphic Arts and Ceramics by José Fors; Escritores de nuestra América en la Casa; Photographs by David Alan Harvey; Kinder, photographs by Jorge Arturo Bermúdez, winner of the 10th Fernando Benítez National Cultural Journalism Award.
Films
Lucía, director Humberto Solá Las doce sillas, director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; La muerte de un burócrata, director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea; Memories of Underdevelopment, director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.