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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
Libros al Gusto
From the trench to the frying pan
Participants: Melinda Ridaura, Maite Laborde, Maco Sánchez
Presenter: Benito Taibo
Melinda Ridaura
Melinda Ridaura Harvey, born in 1978 in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, is a Mexican visual artist with a multidisciplinary background in interior design, museography, gastronomy, sculpture and humanities. Her work, a fusion of installations and performance, explores Mexican identity through the lens of gastronomy and reflects her rich Mexican, Spanish and English cultural heritage.
During her time in the Mexican film industry, she developed a special fondness for historical projects and food styling. At the end of 2020, she decided to make a radical change in her life, moving to another country and exploring other professional paths. She currently resides in Edinburgh and is dedicated to facilitating therapeutic workshops at the psychiatric hospital. In this new context, she combines her passion for art with her social vocation, using cooking, art and ceramics as tools to promote well-being. In her free time she dances, creates alebrijes and works on the second edition of her family recipe book.
Maite Laborde
She was born in Mexico City, where she lived and studied until she completed her Bachelor's degree.
Since she was little, she was attracted to dishes that were prepared at home, so she dedicated a lot of time of her childhood and youth to the kitchen. She studied Pedagogy at UNAM (1982-1986). She moved to Boston, MA, USA, where she lived from 1988 to 1993; it was there that she decided to specialize as a chef by completing a diploma at Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, Massachusetts, USA in 1989-1990.
She moved to Cambridge, England (1993-1995) and perfected her English by taking the "Proficiency in English" course at the University of Cambridge.
Since then, already in Mexico, she has worked in food preparation and menu design, specializing in the presentation of dishes in a professional manner as a Food Stylist in fields ranging from Editorial (Mango Editorial 2014-2016; Delicias de la Cocina and Gourmet Experience of Liverpool 2018-2019), to Commercial (Advertising projects for Bimbo, Herdez, Superama, Marinela, LALA, Nutella, Nutriolli, among others; and for restaurant image: Las Palomas, Malinalco and El Edhen in CDMX; 2016-2024), and Entertainment (in Period Series: Sitiados III, 2018 and Travesuras de la Niña Mala, 2020).
In parallel to her work, she has taken the following Specialization courses: Food Styling Course in Another Style for Cooking; Pre-Hispanic Food Course “The 300 dishes of Moctezuma” taught by Rodrigo Llanes at CEGAG; Food Illumination Course, taught by Nacho Urquiza; Molecular Cooking Course, at ASPIC Gastronomic Institute; Course in Modern Dessert Techniques at La Postrería, taught by Chef Fernanda Covarrubias.
She personally worked on and printed a recipe book entitled “My favorite recipes”, illustrated with watercolor drawings made by herself.
Maco Sánchez
Born in Madrid in 1968, she has lived and worked in Mexico, intermittently, since 1993. She holds a degree in American Anthropology from the Complutense University of Madrid (1986-1991) and a Master of Liberal Arts in Museology from the Harvard University Extension School, Cambridge, MA (2003-2005).
She has managed the association of art critics Curare, A.C. (1993-1997) and Abel Quezada, A.C. (2007-2012); and has been manager of the studios of Jan Hendrix (1997-2000) and Francis Alÿs (2016-2020).
Among her most recent projects, she has been associate curator of the exhibition Jan Hendrix. Tierra Firme (MUAC, CDMX; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht; MAHG, León, 2019-2022); and co-curator of Curare. Poisons, Remedies and Critical Strategies, 1991-2010 (MUAC, 2022). In the editorial field, she has edited: OMR 1(1983-2015) (Turner, 2020); A Thousand Threads, on Guillermo Santamarina (Alias, 2023); Atlas/Casa Jan Hendrix (Citi Banamex/RM, 2024).
Benito Taibo
(México, 1960) es escritor, periodista y entusiasta promotor de la lectura entre los jóvenes. Inició su camino en la literatura como poeta con Siete primeros poemas (1976), Vivos y suicidas (1978), Recetas para el desastre (1987) y De la función social de las gitanas (2002). Ha publicado en Planeta sus novelas Polvo (2010), Persona normal (2011), Querido Escorpión (2013), Desde mi muro (2014), Cómplices (2015), Corazonadas (2016) y la trilogía Mundo sin dioses: Camino a Sognum (2018), La razón y la ira (2019), Caos y destino (2020), Pasar inadvertido (Seix Barral, 2022). Su libro más reciente es Cuatro veranos (Planeta, 2023). Su obra es un referente ineludible en el panorama literario contemporáneo.
Other activities involving the participant:
Poetry Room
Latin America Viva
European Literature Festival