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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Spain, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
Worldly ailments of the Earth
Spain, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
Worldly ailments of the Earth
Through their respective works, Yayo Herrero and Marta Peirano will talk about the need to reflect on our relationship with the environment, and the relationship between humans and non-humans. Far from apocalyptic visions, the authors will discuss climate feudalism and disaster capitalism, but also the various forms of organization and modern technical tools with the ability to transform the ecological crisis. Proposals for the present that, together with ideas of "ecofeminism," force us to rethink the world and its priorities in order to guarantee a future with a decent life for all those who live in it.
Participants: Yayo Herrero, Marta Peirano
Moderator: Giselle Etcheverry Walker
Yayo Herrero
Invitado de Honor(1965) Herrero has a PhD in Social and Political Science, a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and a degree in Social Education and Agricultural Technical Engineering. She is a member-worker at Garúa Sociedad Cooperativa, as well as a consultant, researcher, teacher and writer in the fields of political ecology, eco-feminism, eco-social transitions and education for the sustainability of life. For decades, she has been combining her work with active participation in social movements, especially the environmental movement.
Her latest publications are Toma de Tierra (2023, Caniche), Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la vida (Icaria, 2023), Educar para la sostenibilidad de la vida. Una mirada ecofeminista a la educación (2022, Octaedro), Derechos Humanos (2022, Litera), Ausencias y extravíos (2021, Ediciones Contextatarias y Libros en Acción) and Ecofeminismos para tiempos de crisis (2020, Pabellón 6).
She has coordinated and written in works such as Tiempo para la vida (Charo Morán, Helena Pariente and Yayo Herrero; 2022, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona), Cambio climático (Yayo Herrero, María González Reyes and Berta Páramo; 2019, Ediciones Litera), La vida en el centro. Voces y relatos ecofeministas (Yayo Herrero, María González, Marta Pascual, illustrated by Emma Gascó; 2018, Libros en Acción), La gran encrucijada. Sobre la crisis ecosocial y el cambio de ciclo histórico (Fernando Prats, Yayo Herrero, Alicia Torrego; 2016, Libros en Acción), Cambiar las gafas de ver el mundo. Una nueva cultura de sostenibilidad (Yayo Herrero, Fernando Cembranos and Marta Pascual (coords.); 2011, Libros en Acción), Educación y Ecología. El currículum oculto antiecológico de los libros de texto (Fernando Cembranos, Yayo Herrero y Marta Pascual (coords.); 2007, Editorial Popular).
She has published dozens of articles in anthologies. Part of her work has been translated into Catalan, Basque, Italian, French, English, German and Korean.
Other activities involving the participant:
Written with ink and chlorophyll
Marta Peirano
Invitado de HonorPeirano is a columnist for El País and a contributor on Radio Nacional de España (RNE). She has been the Culture Director at ADN and deputy director at eldiario.es. She has curated the Barcelona Thought Biennial and created “(re) programming - Strategies for Self-Renewal,” a program of interviews on technology and climate change at the Institute of Contemporary Art of Ljubljana, and “In-depth Journalism,” a seminar on new journalism at Medialab-Matadero.
She has published El rival de Prometeo, a manual of famous automatons (2011, Impedimenta); El pequeño libro rojo del activista en la Red (2015, Rocaeditorial), a cryptography manual with a foreword by Edward Snowden, and El enemigo conoce el sistema (2019, Debate), an instant hit on the capitalism of surveillance. Her latest books are Contra el futuro (2022, Debate), a critical analysis of climatic technologies and apocalyptic stories, and (re) programming, a book of discussions with thinkers and visionaries about alternatives to the end of the world (2022, Aksioma).
Other activities involving the participant:
Crossroads. Mathematics, technology and literature
Giselle Etcheverry Walker
Invitado de HonorGiselle Etcheverry Walker is a curator of literary and thinking projects, as well as a freelance editor. She holds a degree in Philosophy and an MBA in Business Management and Cultural Institutions. From 2004 until its closure in 2009 she worked at the literary agency of the Prisa Group, “La Oficina del Autor”. From 2009 to 2019 she was deputy director of the Culture Area of the Santillana Foundation, where she participated in the development and consolidation of projects such as the Formentor Literary Conversations and the Formentor Prize for Literature, the Cultural Journalism Congress, the Cultural Industries Forum and the Philosophy Festival, among others. As an editor, she has edited and coordinated the publication of essays and correspondence for various publishing houses. For more than ten years she was co-editor of the literary portal El Boomeran(g). She has curated the programme of literary activities for Madrid Book Night (2022-2024), the Madrid-Dublin Bloomsday around James Joyce's Ulysses (2023 and 2024), and the first Book Friday. A storehouse of stories of the material world in literature (2023). Since 2020 she has been curator of The sin of reading, a cycle of meetings celebrating Alianza Publishing House catalogue, and curator of the programme of the Contemporary Culture Centre Condeduque’s (Madrid) Thinking and Debate Area, among other projects related to public exhibition activities. Just as in 2022 she contributed to the preparation of the literary programme for Spain's guest of honour at the Frankfurt Book Fair, in 2024 she is working on the design of the content of the literary and pavilion programmes for Spain's presence as guest of honour at the Guadalajara International Book Fair. She is a member of Policrits, Network of Contemporary Iberoamerican Critical Thinking.
Monday December 02
18:00 to 18:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara