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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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
Quebec
Organized by
Universidad de Guadalajara, Coordinación General de Extensión, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Coordinación de Promoción y Difusión Cultural, Bureau des Événements du Québec.
Writers
José Acquelin, Marie–Célie Agnant, Line Beuchamp, Claude Beausoleil, Louise Bédard, Gaston Bellemare, Geneviève Billet, Lise Bissonnette, Neil Bissoondath, Louise Bombardier, Gérard Bouchard, Michel Marc Bouchard, Serge Bouchard, Nicole Brossard, Chrystine Brouillet, André–Philippe Côté, Louise Côte, Gil Courtemanche, Marie–Danielle Croteau, Jean–François Chassay, Serge Chapleau, Daniel Danis, Gido Del Fabro, Dominique Demers, Pierre Desriusseaux, Lynn Diamond, Simon Dumas, Cecilia Eudave, Trevor Ferguson, Michel Garneau, Bertrand Gauthier, Marie–Louise Gay, David Homel, Daniel Jacques, Louis Jolicoeur, D. Kimm, Sergio Kokis, Pierre Lefleur, Robert LaLonde, Dominique Lauzon, Suzanne Lebeau, Viateur Lefrançois, Geneviève Letarte, Nicolas Letarte, Guy Marchamps, Gabriel Martin, Rita Mestokosho, Jean Morisser, Michel Noël, Stanley Péan, Gilles Pellerin, Marcela Pizarro, Lori Hazine–Poisson, Claudine Potvin, Bernard Pozier, Rober Racine, André Ricard, André Roy, Françoise Roy, Luis Alfonso S., Boris Schoemann, Gilles Tibo, Gaëtan Tremblay, Élise Turcotte, Denis Vaugeois, Guillaume Vigneault, Gilles Vigneault.
Esplanade
Les 7 doigts de la main (The 7 Fingers of the Hand); Ariane Moffatt; Yann Perreau; Jorane, accompanied by the Orquesta Sinfónica Juvenil de Zapopan; Les Batinses; Mutek; Surprise Show (La Barranca); Les Respectables, Collective.
Plastic Arts
Exposition d’art contemporain de Loto-Quebec: Lieux Anthropiques. Tina Modotti, Fotografías 1924-1929, Vidéaste Recherché en Mé Bocetos de un nuevo mundo.
Theater
Cuentos de niños reales; Charlotte du Mexique, Impératrice du Néant.
Dance
Elles.
Films
La déroute, director Paul Tana; Un crabe dans la tête, director André Turpin; Un zoo la nuit, director Jean–Claude Lauzon; Le confessionnal, director Robert Lepage; Las musas huérfanas, director Robert Favreau; L’ange de goudron, director Denis Chouinard; Cosmos, directores André Turpin, Jennifer Alleyn, Denis Villeneuve, Marie–Julie Dallaire, Manon Briand, Arto Paragamian.
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