
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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Poetry Room
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Poetry Room
Participant: Paula Ilabaca
Presenter: Julián Herbert

Paula Ilabaca
(Chile, 1979)
Es escritora, docente y editora. Licenciada en letras y magíster en educación superior. Doctoranda en estudios americanos en la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez. Se ha dedicado a la escritura de poesía, narrativa y pódcast, abordando temáticas feministas (poesía) y de denuncia, investigación policial y violencia criminal (novela y pódcast). Su más reciente novela es La mujer del río (Sudamericana, 2024) y fue parte del equipo de guionistas de las dos temporadas del pódcast Crimen (Emisor podcasting 2020-2021). Es fundadora y directora de la microeditorial Castor y Pólux. Su libro La perla suelta ganó el PEN AWARDS 2023 en la categoría traducción de poesía. Ha ganado el Premio Pablo Neruda (2015), Juegos Florales (2014) y Premio a la Crítica (2010). Actualmente se dedica a la docencia universitaria y a dictar talleres literarios.
Other activities involving the participant:
Making a living from writing: Different ways to become a professional writer

Julián Herbert
(Mexico, 1971)
He is the author of the books of poems El nombre de esta casa, La resistencia, Kubla Khan, Pastilla camaleón, Álbum Iscariote and La parte quemada; of the novels Un mundo infiel and Tomb Song; from the fictionalized historical chronicle House of the Pain of Others, The: Chronicle of a Small Genocide; from the storybooks Cocaína (manual del usuario) and Bring Me the Head of Quentin Tarantino; from the volume of chronicles Ahora imagino cosas; and from the collection of essays Suerte de principiante, among other titles. He contributed additional material to the film's script Cassandro. He won the Gilberto Owen National Literature Prize, the Juan José Arreola Prize for short fiction, the Agustín Yáñez Prize for short fiction, the Jaén Novel Prize, the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-American Novel Prize, the MacGinnis Ritchie Award, the Borchard Foundation scholarship and the Ramón López Velarde national poetry award. Some of his books have been translated into English, French, Portuguese, Italian, German and Turkish. He is a member of the National System of Art Creators, and is a vocalist of Los Tigres de Borges.
X: @julian_herbert
Other activities involving the participant:
Literature with eggs and machaca
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio del Gobierno de Chile
Thursday December 05
20:00 to 20:50
Salón de la Poesía, planta alta, Expo Guadalajara