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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
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
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Wild sex
We tend to see the natural world from an anthropocentric point of view, where we read the sexual behaviors of other animals with the gaze of our time and culture. Nothing could be further from reality, as it is revealed by biologists like Constantino Macías, director of UNAM Canada, who has studied the sexual behavior of fish, frog calls and the way birds adapt to living in cities. And María Emilia Beyer, director of Universum, the Science Museum of the National Autonomous University of Mexico and 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. It will be an exciting conversation, full of interesting facts with the intention of opening our minds and knowledge about nature, from the hand of both experts.
Participants: Constantino Macías, María Emilia Beyer
Constantino Macías
He is a biologist who has always liked fish, frogs and birds. He studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and later in England. He has worked for more than 30 years at the Institute of Ecology of the UNAM, where he has studied the sexual behavior of fish, frog calls and the way birds adapt to living in cities. Currently, he is in Canada commissioned to direct the UNAM Canada, which does not prevent him from continuing to direct theses and conducting research projects at a distance.
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
The letters of the garden
Neurodiverse minds in the literary world
Mental health in the virtual world
Space science
Organiza: Universum, Museo de las Ciencias de la UNAM and FIL Guadalajara