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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
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.
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.
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
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The letters of the garden
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The letters of the garden
The garden, a domestic territory, has been a typically feminine space. Thus, botany is a science with silent advances thanks to female contributions that did not always find the due recognition. Susana Magallón, director of the Institute of Biology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a recognized botanist on a global scale, will talk with the Spanish writer Luci Romero, who in 2023 obtained the I Residence of Literature and Environment of the National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM) within the National Parks organization. Both will talk about the intersections between science and literature to give place to authors and characters who made the plant world a stage for the arts and the advancement of knowledge.
Participants: Susana Magallón, Luci Romero
Moderator: María Emilia Beyer
Susana Magallón
Susanna is fascinated by blue flowers. Among the 350 thousand species of flowering plants, only very few groups have figured out how to make blue flowers. Susana is dedicated to studying how flowering plants acquired so many species, and what the structure of flowers has to do with it. She studies this by combining information from living species with the fossil record. She is currently the director of the Institute of Biology of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and given her important career, she is one of the most recognized biologists worldwide, and for this reason she has been invited by the Royal Society in London and the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, to become a member of these prestigious organizations.
Luci Romero
Invitado de Honor(1980, Cabra, Córdoba) is a cultural manager, writer and (ex)bookseller, with a degree in Art History, a Master's in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage, and a Postgraduate in Literature Theory and Literary Critique (Universidad de Valencia). For nine years, she co-owned the Bartleby bookstore in Valencia.
As a poet, she is the author of the books: Autovía del Este, El diluvio (Amargord), Western (Delirio) and El tiempo de la quema (Ejemplar único). She also appears in the anthology Sais.Diecinueve poetas desde La Bella Varsovia (La Bella Varsovia). She was the co-editor of the Flechas de Atalanta booklet, which features poetry and illustrations, and in 2010, she won the La Voz+joven Award from La Casa Encendida. In 2023, she published the essay on the writing of nature or literature, El arte de contar la naturaleza.Un acercamiento a la nature writing (Barlin Libros). In 2024, she published the poetry book No sabe la semilla de qué mano ha caído from Eolas publishers.
She has featured in festivals such as Letras Verdes and Siberiana. In 2023, she received the inaugural Literature and Environment Residency from the National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM) within the National Parks organization.
She currently lives in Valencia.
Other activities involving the participant:
Written with ink and chlorophyll
María Emilia Beyer
She is an expert in telling stories about science in exhibitions, radio, television and written media. She loves reading and writing; she is the author of nine popular science books for children and young people. She loves to design interactive exhibitions, such as Ciencia con sabor a chocolate and Mujeres inventoras. She works tirelessly to bring girls closer to science; she has been a master mentor of the New York Academy of Sciences for the international program 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures. Internationally, she is a member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Science and Technology Centers (ASTC) and of the Board of Directors of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) for Mexico. Since 2020 she has held the position of Director of Universum, the Science Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her favorite role in life is to be Mily's mom.
Other activities involving the participant:
The language of plants and animals
Literature between dogs and cats
Wild sex
Mental health in the virtual world
Space science
Organiza: Universum, Museo de las Ciencias de la UNAM, Ministerio de Cultura de España, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and FIL Guadalajara
Saturday November 30
18:00 to 18:50
Salón 2, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara