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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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And now we're going to go our separate ways: the physiology of breaking up
Spain, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
And now we're going to go our separate ways: the physiology of breaking up
"Love is not an end but a process through which one person tries to know another," says Stoner, John Williams' character. But what happens when you decide not to continue getting to know the other person? In their most recent works, Jacobo Bergareche, Marta Jiménez Serrano and Sabina Urraca have dealt with different stories of heartbreak from very unique perspectives, in which their characters had starring roles in stories of permanent breakups. The authors will discuss how goodbyes are told in fiction, the creative force of separation and spite in today's literature.
Participants: Marta Jiménez Serrano, Sabina Urraca, Jacobo Bergareche
Moderator: Sara Torres
Marta Jiménez Serrano
Invitado de Honor(Madrid, 1990) She is a writer. She holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Master’s in Literary Studies and Modern Letters. In 2022, she was awarded the writer's residency scholarship at the Cité des Arts (Paris).
Her poetry collection La edad ligera (2021, Rialp) was a runner-up for the 2020 Adonáis Prize. Her novel Los nombres propios (2021, Sexto Piso) was translated into Italian and selected by El Cultural as one of the best debuts of the year. Her book No todo el mundo (2023, Sexto Piso) was a finalist for the Premio de las Librerías de Madrid (best fiction book), finalist for the Openbank Vanity Fair Literature Prize (best fiction book in Spanish), winner of the Nollegiu Prize 2023 (best short story collection in Spanish), and selected as one of the books of the year by media outlets such as Babelia, Cadena Ser, and Radio Televisión Española (RTVE).
She has also contributed to collective books such as Querida Theresa (2022, Comisura) and El gran libro de los pájaros (2023, Blackie Books).
She has a monthly column in La Lectura, the cultural supplement of El Mundo, and she is one of the contributors to the television show "Ovejas eléctricas," hosted by Berto Romero. She writes and teaches writing workshops in Madrid.
Other activities involving the participant:
Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Sabina Urraca
Invitado de Honor(San Sebastián, 1984) is a writer and editor. She grew up in Tenerife and has lived in Madrid for over twenty years. She is the author of Las niñas prodigio (2017, Fulgencio Pimentel), winner of the Javier Morote Award, presented by the Spanish Confederation of Guilds and Associations of Booksellers (CEGAL), and selected by New Spanish Books, a program aimed at translating works in Spanish; Soñó con la chica que robaba un caballo (2021, Lengua de Trapo); Chachachá (Dueto) (2023, Comisura) and El celo (2024, Alfaguara). She has also featured in the anthologies Verónica... (2023, Bcn Producció, La Capella), Hospitalidad contra pronóstico (2023, Bartlebooth y Concomitentes), Tranquilas.Historias para ir solas de noche (2019, Lumen) and La errabunda (2018, Lindo y Espinosa).
Her stories and translations of some chapters of her books have been published in magazines such as The White Review (United Kingdom), The Washington Square Review (USA) and Picnic (Mexico), and she has collaborated with columns and articles in outlets such as El País, El Cultural, Vice and Cinemania. She has a monthly column in the literary magazine Zenda.
She has taught writing workshops in Spain, Mexico, El Salvador and Costa Rica. In 2020, she received the 10 de 30 grant, which promotes the internationalization of Spanish writers, as part of which she gave talks at the Instituto Cervantes in Chicago and Georgetown University in Washington.
In 2019, she debuted as editor with Panza de burro, by Andrea Abreu (Barrett), as part of the “Editor for a book” project. In 2020, she received the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) grant in Spanish Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. She is the resident editor of Caballo de Troya (Penguin Random House) for 2023 and 2024. In 2023, she was awarded a literary residency by the Finestres Foundation. In 2022, she received the Leonardo grant for creators from the BBVA Foundation.
Other activities involving the participant:
Body grammar
Toxic relationships in literature
Jacobo Bergareche
Invitado de Honor(London, 1976) left his studies in Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and earned a degree in Writing, Literature, and Publishing from Emerson College in Boston. He began his career as a screenwriter and television producer, creating several fiction series for Spain's major channels. For a few years, he worked in advertising in Austin, Texas. He was a member of the advisory board of the Harry Ransom Center, one of the largest literary archives in the world.
He has published the novels Estaciones de regreso (2019, Círculo de Tiza), Los días perfectos (2021, Libros del Asteroide) and Las despedidas (2023, Libros del Asteroide). In 2022, he received a special mention from the European Union Prize for Literature. Currently, he is producing a documentary series for Televisión Española (TVE), collaborating with various national print media, and preparing an essay and a novel for 2025.
Sara Torres
Invitado de Honor(Gijón, 1991) received the 2022 Revelación de los Libreros Award for her novel Lo que hay (2022). Her theoretical and creative work focuses on the analysis of desire, body and discourse through a critical feminist and interdisciplinary apparatus that intertwines psychoanalysis, new materialisms and queer studies. She has a PhD from Queen Mary University in London. Her thesis is entitled: The Lesbian Text: Fetish, Fantasy and Queer Becomings (El texto lesbiano: Fantasía, fetiche y devenires queer).
Her first book, La otra genealogía (Torremozas), won the National Gloria Fuertes Poetry Award. She has also published the poetry books Conjuros y cantos, Phantasmagoria, El ritual del baño, and most recently Deseo de perro.
She has a column in eldiario.es where she writes regularly.
Other activities involving the participant:
Speak, wish
Saturday December 07
18:00 to 18:50
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara