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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Participant: María Ángeles Pérez López
Presenter: Luis Armenta Malpica
María Ángeles Pérez López
Invitado de Honor(Valladolid, Spain, 1967) Poet and teacher at the Universidad de Salamanca, where she works on contemporary Spanish poetry.
As a poet, she has received several awards, including the Premio Nacional de la Crítica for Incendio mineral (2021, Vaso Roto) and the awards of the Fundación Centro de Poesía José Hierro and Meléndez Valdés de Poesía for Libro mediterráneo de los muertos (2023, Pre-Textos).
Anthologies of her work have been published in Caracas, Mexico City, Quito, New York, Monterrey, Bogotá, Lima and Buenos Aires. Also, in bilingual editions, in Italy and Portugal. In 2024, the Piedra del desconcierto antohology was published in Honduras, and in Spain the poetic essay La belleza de la materia.
Her book Carnalidad del frío has been published in a bilingual edition in Brazil and the United States. The New York Poetry Press edition (Carnality of Cold) received the Mention of Honor at the 2023 International Latino Book Awards.
She has published and written prologues for numerous works, including Teresa de Jesús.“Las Moradas” y siete diálogos actuales (2022, Vaso Roto).
She is part of the Asociación Genialogías, and is committed to recognizing the legacy of poets. She is a corresponding member of the North American Academy of the Spanish Language, an honorary member of the Nicaraguan Academy, an honorary citizen of Fontiveros, and a member of the Academia de Juglares de Fontiveros, the birthplace of Saint John of the Cross.
She has been on the jury of numerous literary awards in Spain and several American countries, including the Reina Sofía Prize for Iberoamerican Poetry and the Cervantes Prize.
Other activities involving the participant:
Meetings (and misunderstandings). Santa Teresa de Jesús and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Beloved sisters
Luis Armenta Malpica
(México, 1961)
He is a poet, essayist and director of Mantis Editores. Jalisco Prize in Letters in 2008 and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz International Literature prize in 2013, among many others; the most current ones are the Carlos Pellicer Ibero-American Fine Arts Poetry Prize for Published Work (2020), Minerva Margarita Villarreal Ibero-American Poetry Prize (2021) and Iguana de Oro by the Huston Chair of Cinema and Literature at the University of Guadalajara (2022). He is a member of the National System of Art Creators. His most recent titles are [Contra] Dicción (UANL, 2022), Esto no es un bestiario (Tedium Vitae, 2023) and Enola Gay (Broken Glass, Spain, 2024, in bilingual edition).
Other activities involving the participant:
Poetry Room
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Vaso Roto Ediciones
Sunday December 08
19:00 to 19:50
Salón de la Poesía, planta alta, Expo Guadalajara