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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Comic and Graphic Novel Hall
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Manel Cráneo: From author to editor and vice versa. 30 years creating comics.
Manel Craneo will tell us how, over three decades, he went from making fanzines and self-publishing to establishing himself as a professional author and editor by founding Demo in 2009, a publishing label specialising in comics using a minority language, Galician, as a base. How he has managed to finance and promote projects and create a platform for the sector by founding the Asociación Galega de Profesionales de la Ilustración in 2003. He will also talk about my current experience as director of the Salón del Cómic de A Coruña, one of the most important events in Spain.
Participants: Manel Cráneo, Xavier Alcalá
Manel Cráneo
(Spain, 1973)
Multidisciplinary artist with extensive background. As a comic book author, hundreds of pages of his appeared in publications such as BD Banda, Barsowia, De los Veces Breve, Lana Resistencia and dozens of Galician and Spanish magazines. He published graphic novels such as Dámsmitt (Dibbuks, 2006), Los lobos de Moeche (Demo Editorial, 2009), Cosas de muertos (Demo Editorial, 2012), La torre de los moros (Demo Editorial, 2012), Destino Hërgüss (Demo Editorial, 2015) and in 2023 Cinza. He collaborated on collective volumes for publishers such as Astiberri, Ariadna or Ediciones Generales.
In audiovisual media, he produced and directed a pilot episode for an animation series based on his personal universe Planeta Mincha, and other 2D animation pieces and the historical documentary El reiciño de Galicia.
As an illustrator he worked for different publishing houses such as Richmond Publishing, Usborne, Santillana, Rodeira (SM), Galaxia, Generales, Porto, Chiado or Everest, among others. His work was exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Spain, Portugal, France and Cuba, both personal and collective.
Among his awards, the National Comic about the Life and Work of Federico García Lorca (Granada, 1998) stands out.
He has given more than 350 talks, workshops and conferences on illustration, BD and visual narrative in the last 25 years in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Cuba or Germany. His connection with the audiovisual world and the advertising sector led him to collaborate in countless cinematographic and advertising projects and feature films performing different functions, from story-boarder even a screenwriter or an art director.
He was the founder and president of the AGPI (Galician Association of Illustration Professionals). He was Vice president of the FADIP (Federation of Professional Illustrators Associations, Spain). He is editorial director and owner of the publishing house and cultural production company Demo, creator of the entertainment brand Planeta Mincha, director of lana plataforma de artistas gráficos Coruña, and since 2024 director of the comic festival Vignettes from the Atlantic in A Coruña.
Other activities involving the participant:
Illustrated books across oceans: editing, illustrating, writing from Galicia
Organiza: Xunta de Galicia
Friday December 06
16:00 to 16:50
Foro Rius, Salón del Cómic, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara