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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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The "other people": animals and nature in literature
Spain, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
The "other people": animals and nature in literature
In Why Look at Animals?, John Berger noted that it would not be the least bit strange to imagine that the first metaphor invented by humans was inspired by an animal. But, what about today? How are animals portrayed in today's literature? What do books say about our current relationship with the animal world and nature? What space, what relevance do these living beings occupy? Writer Manuel Rivas and zoologist Andrés Cota Hiriart, two authors who have shown that emotional and fantastic connection between animals and nature in their books, will discuss animals and their representation in contemporary literature.
Participants: Andrés Cota Hiriart, Berta García Faet
Moderator: Winston Manrique Sabogal
Andrés Cota Hiriart
He is a zoologist, writer and science communicator. He studied biology at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and a master's degree in a scientific documentary at the Imperial College London. He is the author of the books Fieras familiares (finalist I Libros del Asteroide Nonfiction Prize, 2022), El ajolote (Elefanta 3ed., 2024), Faunologías (Festina 2ed., 2024), Cabeza ajena (Moho, 2017) and from the children's book Madam Cuc, la dueña del paraíso (Elefanta, 2023). His texts are found in anthologies and media such as Revista de la Universidad, Gatopardo, Vice, Nexos, Letras Libres, Este_País, Wiered, among others. He has been a member of the National System of Art Creators (2018-2021), a speaker at TEDx and is the founder of the Society of Anonymous Scientists. He is currently the host of the podcast Masaje cerebral; he is a professor of literature at the Higher School of Cinema, and conducts the program Revista de la Universidad, on TV UNAM.
Other activities involving the participant:
Panel 4: The Communication of Science
Psychedelic biology. Secret colors of nature
Axolotl, traces of the little water monster in literature
Kamazootra, the most extravagant modes of reproduction in the animal kingdom
Berta García Faet
Invitado de Honor(Valencia, 1988) She is the author of the essay El arte de encender las palabras (2023, Barlin) and several poetry collections, all published by La Bella Varsovia, including Corazonada (2023), which was awarded the TodosTusLibros Prize for Best Poetry Book of the Year by CEGAL (Spanish Confederation of Booksellers' Guilds and Associations); Una pequeña personalidad linda (2021); Los salmos fosforitos (2017), Premio Nacional de Poesía Joven Miguel Hernández 2018, presented by the Ministry of Culture; La edad de merecer (2015), translated into English by Kelsi vanada with the title The Eligible Age (2018, Song Bridge Press); and four other books of poetry, compiled in Corazón tradicionalista:Poesía 2008-2011 (2017).
She has translated Caren Beilin (for Los Tres Editores), Paul Legault (for Kriller71) and Blanca Llum Vidal (for Ultramarinos), and co-edited Estrellas vivas.Antología de poesía cursi (2024, Letraversal) with Juanpe Sánchez.
With a doctorate in Hispanic Studies from Brown University (USA), her academic research delves into topics such as childishness and sentimentality (her monograph Poéticas de la niñería will be published by Peter Lang in late 2024), animal rights, and areas of friction between Romance languages.
Winston Manrique Sabogal
He is a Colombian-Spanish journalist and founder and director of WMagazín, a global digital literary and cultural magazine based in Spain. His vocation is pan-Hispanic and itinerant, participating in the leading fairs and gatherings of writers and the book universe in both America and Europe. This pioneering project caters to a dual, analog, and virtual world, featuring special editions in PDF and print that enrich journalistic genres and explore new narratives through individual and group video interviews, photo stories, video stories, and video chats with both established and emerging authors, as well as professionals in the field.
He collaborates with the Spanish newspaper El País, where he worked for 19 years as an editor and head of books and literature for the Babelia supplement and the Culture section, and was co-editor of its digital edition and the blog Papeles perdidos. He has interviewed leading writers and book professionals from around the world over the past few decades and has written reports on literary creation, the publishing industry, and the promotion of reading. From this work came the titles El destino del libro, Latinoamérica contra los tópicos and Historias del Boom.50 años de la literatura que cambió el español (El País-Amazon).
In Colombia, he worked for the newspapers El Espectador and El Tiempo, the Colombian news agency Colprensa (Research Unit), and the radio newspaper Agrohuila. He reported on issues ranging from the coffee crisis and alliances between paramilitary and religious sects, to social and cultural trends.
He is the author of La gran transformación: la belleza, el amor, el sexo y la felicidad en el siglo XXI (Galaxia Gutenberg), a work that analyzes the accelerated metamorphosis of these four great desires that are changing life. Over two hundred people, from writers and artists to philosophers and sociologists, have contributed to his journalistic articles since the 1990s.
Other activities involving the participant:
"Childness" Landscape in motion
A question of class: stories of fiction and non-fiction
Paths in time
Crossroads. Journalism and literature
European Literature Festival
Two-way journeys of literary agents And a tribute to Antonia Kerrigan
Monday December 02
19:00 to 19:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara