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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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In no man's land: the place of war
Spain, Guest of Honor
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In no man's land: the place of war
Very accurate imaginaries, but where do those images and stories of conflict and violence come from? Who structures them, how and on what authority? Collective and individual memory combine in a blank space, in a no man's land where war accounts are construed that identify victims and victimizers, while they shape stories that pass, silently, from generation to generation. Writer Javier Cercas and comparative literature professor Antonio Monegal will reflect on how war is covered in literature, visual arts and the media.
Participant: Antonio Monegal
Moderator: Inés Martín Rodrigo
Antonio Monegal
Invitado de HonorHe is a professor of Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, where he coordinates the Master's in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought. He has a PhD from Harvard University and has taught at Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, Chicago and Stanford universities.
He received the award Premio Nacional de Ensayo 2023 for Como el aire que respiramos: El sentido de la cultura (Acantilado, 2022), after which he published El silencio de la guerra (Acantilado, 2024). He is also the author of Luis Buñuel de la literatura al cine: Una poética del objeto and of En los límites de la diferencia: Poesía e imagen en las vanguardias hispánicas. He also coordinated Literatura y pintura and Política y (po)ética de las imágenes de guerra, and edited the works of García Lorca Viaje a la luna and El público.
He was one of the curators, along with Francesc Torres and José María Ridao, of the exhibition En Guerra (2004) and, with Alyce Mahon, has curated Sade:la libertad o el mal (2023), both at the Center of Contemporary Culture in Barcelona. From 2009 to 2013, he was Vice-President of the Council of Culture of Barcelona and Chairman of its Executive Committee.
Inés Martín Rodrigo
Invitado de Honor(Madrid, 1983) is a writer and journalist. In 2022, she won the Nadal Prize with the novel Las formas del querer, which also received the Premio de la Crítica de Madrid. She is also the author of the biographical fiction Azules son las horas (2016), the anthology of interviews with women writers Una habitación compartida (2020), the children's story Giselle (2020), and the essay Una homosexualidad propia (2023).
In 2019, she was included in the “10 de 30” program of the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), which every year recognizes the best Spanish writers under 40 years old. For 14 years she worked for the Culture section of the ABC newspaper and in June 2022, she joined the Prensa Ibérica group, where she is on the team of the literary supplement abril and writes opinion pieces.
Other activities involving the participant:
Rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty
Free time with a tourist personality
Journeys. Tribute to Carmen Martín Gaite
Journeys. Tribute to Ana María Matute
Wednesday December 04
20:00 to 20:50
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara