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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Spain, Guest of Honor
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The labyrinth of intrigue
Spain, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
The labyrinth of intrigue
Second lieutenant Bevilacqua and his coworker, Brigadier Chamorro, the inspector Manuel Mauri, ninety-something Sofía O'Rourke, Carola Rey Rojo and Commissioner Ruiz, are now, of their own right, part of the imaginary of Spanish literature thanks to an ingenious labyrinth of intrigue resulting from the imagination of their creators. Elia Barceló, Berna González Harbour and Lorenzo Silva will discuss the creative possibilities of the crime noir genre, the contemporary terrors reflected in literature and the extent to which events in today's world provide an effective narrative resource when concocting the perfect plot.
Participants: Berna González Harbour, Lorenzo Silva, Elia Barceló
Moderator: Jesús Ruiz Mantilla
Berna González Harbour
Invitado de HonorShe is a writer, literary journalist and columnist for El País. She received the Dashiell Hammett Award in 2020 for El sueño de la razón (Destino), the latest novel in a saga starring Commissioner Ruiz, the first book of which, Verano en rojo, was made into a movie of the same name.
She writes crime novels, she created Commissioner Ruiz and is one of the “new nine” of Spanish crime literature, according to Paco Camarasa. She won the Libreros de Cantabria 2018 and José Estrañi 2019 awards, and sits on several literary juries. She is also a political analyst and cultural collaborator. She is an assistant director at El País, where she has edited Babelia and been sent to numerous countries in conflict. She hosts the program on books “¿Qué estás leyendo?”, and is a regular guest on the Hoy por hoy talk show on Cadena Ser, and on La Hora de la 1, on Televisión Española (RTVE).
This year she published the novel El Pozo (Destino) and the non-fiction work Goya en el país de los garrotazos (Arpa). She has been translated into German.
Other activities involving the participant:
Naming Central America because Central America counts
“Evil never goes unpunished” The enigmas of the crime novel
Opening of the Carlos Fuentes Literary Lounge
Lorenzo Silva
Invitado de Honor(Madrid, 1966) has a degree in Law from the Complutense University. He worked as an account auditor and lawyer. As a novelist, he was short-listed for the 1997 Nadal Award with La flaqueza del bolchevique and has received, among others, the Ojo Crítico Award in 1998 for El lejano país de los estanques, the Nadal Prize in 2000 for El alquimista impaciente, the Primavera Award in 2004 for Carta blanca and the Planeta Award in 2012 for La marca del meridiano. As the author of children's and young adult literature, he won the Destino Infantil Apel.les Mestres 2002-2003 Award for Laura y el corazón de las cosas and the La Brújula Award in 2013 for the novel Suad (co-written with Noemí Trujillo). In non-fiction, he won the 2010 Algaba Award for Sereno en el peligro.La aventura histórica de la Guardia Civil and he wrote a study on law in Kafka's work and two books on the old Spanish Morocco. He also co-authored a book on Spain's intervention in Iraq, Y al final, la guerra, and another on the Civil Guard's fight against ETA, Sangre, sudor y paz. Several of his 84 published books have been translated into 14 languages.
Elia Barceló
Invitado de Honor(Elda, Alicante, 1957), “The Lady of a Thousand Worlds” (R. Ruiz, Babelia) and one of the most versatile writers in today's literary landscape in Spain, has a degree in Anglo-Germanic Philology (Valencia), Hispanic Philology (Alicante) and a PhD in Hispanic Literature (Innsbruck, Austria).
She has published over 90 stories in magazines and anthologies, as well as 33 novels. She is regarded as one of the most important science fiction and fantasy literature authors in Spanish, having won national and international awards, but she has works in many other genres. Her works have been translated into more than 20 languages.
She is also a multi-award-winning author of young-adult literature. Her novel El efecto Frankenstein (2019) received the award Premio Nacional in 2020.
She also writes general novels for adults and crime novels, both to great public and critical acclaim. These include: The goldsmith's secret (2003), Disfraces terribles (2004), Las largas sombras (2009), El color del silencio (2017), El eco de la piel (2019), La noche de plata (2020, Alicante Noir Award, shortlisted for the Hammett Award at the Semana Negra de Gijón). In 2022, she began a series of “Mediterranean Noir” with Muerte en Santa Rita (2022), Amores que matan (2023) and La soga de cristal (2024), all of them published by Roca (Penguin Random House).
Her anthology of short stories La maga y otros cuentos crueles received the award Premio de Narrativa from the Valencian Literary Critics in 2016.
She is a columnist for El Correo and writes opinion articles every two weeks for El Diario.es.
Mil euros por tu vida was adapted for the cinema by Damir Lukacevic as Transfer (Germany, 2011), and has won several public and critics' awards. Her novel Las largas sombras has been adapted by Disney+ for a six-episode television series. There are also two highly developed audiovisual projects based on her texts.
Other activities involving the participant:
Science fiction written by women
Jesús Ruiz Mantilla
Invitado de Honor(Santander, 1965) is a writer. Throughout his career, he has worked in fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He is the author of the novels Los ojos no ven; Preludio; Yo, Farinelli, el capón; Gordo (Sent Soví Award in 2005); Ahogada en llamas; La cáscara amarga; Hotel Transition (Fernando Quiñones Novel Award in 2015); El encuentro and Papel. In other genres, he has written Placer contra placer, Contar la música, and Divos, which reflect his journey as a music journalist over three decades for the newspaper El País, and Al día (Galaxia Gutenberg), a poetic experiment that blends a diary with poems drawn from everyday experiences reflected in the diary entries. For El País, he has spent most of his career in journalism in the Culture sections, or in the Babelia and El País Semanal supplements. He has also collaborated with the “The Window” and “Today” radio programs on Cadena Ser.
He is a professor in the CEU's Master's in Cultural Journalism, at the El País school, and he has taught university courses in Spain, Latin America and the United States. As a cultural manager, he is the artistic director of the Eñe festivals in Madrid and Málaga; of the Festival Internacional de Literatura en Español (FILE) in Extremadura and Murcia, and in Fronteras in Valencia, where he mixes musicians with writers. In addition, he is part of the team behind Creadores, a documentary series conceived by Alberto Anaut for La Fábrica, the leading cultural management company in Spain, of which he is a member of the executive team. The series is produced by Amazon, Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), and the Fundación La Caixa, and features ten-hour interviews with various artists from the Spanish-speaking world.
Other activities involving the participant:
With the past at our heels
Once upon a time was love
Crossroads. Humor, illustration and literature
Wednesday December 04
18:00 to 18:50
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara