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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Participant: Pilar Adón
Presenter: José María Paz Gago
Pilar Adón
Invitado de Honor(Madrid, 1971) has received the National Narrative Award, the Critics’ Award, the Francisco Umbral Book of the Year Award and the Cálamo Otra Mirada Award for her novel Of Beasts and Fowls (2024, Open Letter).
She has also published the novels Las efímeras (2015, Galaxia Gutenberg) and Las hijas de Sara (2003, Alianza), as well as the long, illustrated storybook Eterno amor (2021, Páginas de Espuma), and the collections of short stories La vida sumergida (2017, Galaxia Gutenberg), El mes más cruel (2010, Impedimenta), which earned her the FNAC New Talent award, and Viajes inocentes (2005, Páginas de Espuma), for which she won the Ojo Crítico de Narrativa Award.
She has written several books of poetry: Da dolor (2020), Las órdenes (Madrid Booksellers' Guild Book of the Year Award 2018), Mente animal (2014) and La hija del cazador (2011), all published by La Bella Varsovia.
She has translated works by Penelope Fitzgerald, John Fowles, Iris Murdoch, Edith Wharton, and others.
Other activities involving the participant:
Encounter with the strange: vibrations, ghosts, homes and insects
Tradition and modernity in the Spanish and Mexican short story
José María Paz Gago
(Spain, 1966)
Writer and university professor of comparative literature. He is a versatile and multidisciplinary author. An unrepentant adventurer and traveler, his life has been spent all over the world, as he has lived for many years in Europe, America and Africa, which has left a deep mark on his poetic and narrative work. The cities of Paris, Venice and Cartagena de Indias are the recurring settings of his poems and stories, from Manual para enamorar princesas (Madrid, SIAL, 2005) to Guía de lugares inexistentes (Madrid, Pigmalión , 2011), poetry collections translated into a dozen languages that have won numerous awards, or the novel Desventuras de un seductor (Free Press, 2020).
President of Poetas sin Fronteras (2020-2022), he is currently part of the ecopoetry trend, which is present in poetry collections like Expulsión del paraíso. Poemario del Caribe (Madrid and Bogotá, Pigmalión y Pijao, 2018), winner of Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer International Award; or Un mar de nombre impronunciable (Madrid, Hiperión, 2020), winner of the Claudio Rodríguez International Poetry Prize.
He has combined his dedication to cinema, fashion and gastronomy with intense creative work in the academic and literary fields. Founder and director of the Betanzos International Film Week, now in its 21st edition, his studies have focused on the work of Cervantes and Galician writers of Castilian expression such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, Valle-Inclán or Camilo José Cela. Present in the media, he is a regular contributor to the most prestigious tribune of the press in the Hispanic field, la Tercera of the daily ABC, as well as from La Voz de Galicia and from such prestigious cultural magazines as Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos or Revista de Occidente. In this field, he has won important journalistic awards such as the Pérez Lugín, the Álvaro Cunqueiro or the City of Cáceres, and a finalist of the Julio Camba Award.
Other activities involving the participant:
Reconquering Nueva Galicia. Valle-Inclán in Guadalajara
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Ministerio de Cultura de España and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
Tuesday December 03
19:00 to 19:50
Salón de la Poesía, planta alta, Expo Guadalajara