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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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
Literary Program
With the past at our heels
Spain, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
With the past at our heels
How do we digest the injustices left to us by the past? In the books by Edurne Portela and Cristina Sánchez-Andrade, literature is coming to rescue our collective memory. Real people, places and true events provide valuable materials for fiction to showcase the abuses, violence and dark tragedies that pierced the destinies of women and men, anonymous witnesses who were expelled from the historical account written by a social group. The two authors will discuss the powerful role that literature plays in bringing back those who have been unjustly forgotten, and who have a lot to tell us about the present.
Participants: Edurne Portela, Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Moderator: Jesús Ruiz Mantilla
Edurne Portela
Invitado de HonorPortela has a degree in History (University of Navarre), a PhD in Hispanic Literature (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA) and was a professor of literature at Lehigh University (Pennsylvania) until 2015. There, she combined her teaching work with running the Humanities Center and other management positions. As part of her academic research, she published numerous articles on the representation of political violence in contemporary Spanish and Argentine culture, and the essay Displaced Memories:The Poetics of Trauma in Argentine Women’s Writing.
Since 2016, she has lived in Spain and published with Galaxia Gutenberg El eco de los disparos:Cultura y memoria de la violencia (2016), and the novels Mejor la ausencia (2017, Award in 2018 for best fiction book of the year of the Guild of Bookstores of Madrid and International Literary Award of the City of Cassino, Italy), Formas de estar lejos (2019) and Los ojos cerrados (2021, Euskadi Award for Spanish Literature 2022 and Estado Crítico Award 2022). Her latest novel is Maddi y las fronteras (2023).
In 2017, she produced the documentary Vida y ficción, together with José Ovejero. She has given numerous lectures on matters of memory, history, violence and their representation in literature. In 2021, she curated the conference series “Beyond Auschwitz: exceptional and continued mass violence in 20th-century Europe” for the Koldo Mitxelena center in San Sebastián.
She writes regularly for various newspapers and magazines and collaborates with several Spanish radio stations (Radio Nacional de España, SER, Radio Euskadi). Since 2021, she has worked for Galaxia Gutenberg as an editor, creating her own collection of fiction and non-fiction.
Cristina Sánchez-Andrade
Invitado de HonorWriter, literary critic and translator. She has a degree in Information Sciences and Law, and was born in Santiago de Compostela.
Her works include La nostalgia de la Mujer Anfibio (Anagrama, 2022), the storybook El niño que comía lana (Anagrama, 2019) and Winterlings (Anagrama, 2014), which have been translated into several languages. She has written novels, the stories, essays and poems.
Her awards include the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award (Guadalajara Book Fair, Mexico), the Julio Camba Journalism Award (2019) and the Setenil Award for the best book of stories published in Spain. Her work as a translator includes books such as Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, and the biography on Clarice Lispector by Benjamin Moser, Why This World.
She currently lives in Madrid, where she combines her work as a novelist with university teaching and with collaborations in various media outlets, including La Voz de Galicia and El País.
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:
Once upon a time was love
The labyrinth of intrigue
Crossroads. Humor, illustration and literature
Monday December 02
18:00 to 18:50
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara