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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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: Ada Salas
Presenter: Jorge Ortega
Ada Salas
Invitado de Honor(Cáceres, 1965) studied Hispanic Philology at the Universidad de Extremadura. She has taught courses, workshops, seminars and conferences at centers such as Institutos Cervantes, Fundación Juan March, La Casa Encendida, Fundación Centro de Poesía José Hierro, and at book fairs, including in Guadalajara and Frankfurt.
She has published, among others, the books of poetry: Arte y memoria del inocente (1988, Universidad de Extremadura, Juan Manuel Rozas Award); Variaciones en blanco (1994, Hiperión, Hiperión Award); Esto no es el silencio (2008, Hiperión, Ciudad de Córdoba Award); No duerme el animal (2009, Hiperión), which contained almost all of her work until then; Descendimiento (2018, Pre-Textos) and Arqueologías (2022, Pre-Textos). In collaboration with photographer Tete Alejandre, she published Reflecjos (2006), and with painter Jesús Placencia, Ashes to Ashes (2011, Editora Regional de Extremadura) and Diez Mandamientos (2016, La Oficina de Arte y Ediciones). In 2021, Criba (Pezsilver editions) appeared, bringing together poems with artwork by Laura Lio.
The Escribir y borrar anthology (2016, Fondo de Cultura Económica) includes a selection of her essays, such as: Alguien aquí. Notas acerca de la escritura poética (2005, Hiperión); El margen. El error. La tachadura (De la metáfora y otros asuntos más o menos poéticos) (2011, Diputación de Badajoz, Premio de Ensayo Fernando Pérez) and Lengua del alma (2019, Fundación Juan March).
In 2021, she premiered Descendimiento at the Teatro de la Abadía in Madrid, directed by Carlos Marquerie, with music by Niño de Elche.
In 2019, she received the Medal of Extremadura for her career.
Together with Juan Abeleira, she translated A la misteriosa y Las tinieblas by Robert Desnos (Hiperión).
La sed, Lugar de la derrota and Esto no es el silencio have been translated into Swedish, Descendimiento into German, and Arqueologías into Italian.
Jorge Ortega
Mexican poet and essayist. PhD in Hispanic philology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he obtained the grade of Outstanding cum laude with a thesis on surrealist poetry in Latin America. Since 1992 he has published more than fifteen poetry titles in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, the United States, Canada and Italy, among which are Ajedrez de polvo (2003), Estado del tiempo (2005), Devoción por la piedra (2011, 2016), Guía de forasteros (2014) and Hotel del Universo (2023). His poetic work has been translated into English, Mandarin, German, Portuguese, French and Italian, and has been included in multiple compilations of contemporary Mexican poetry. He has also collaborated with poems, reviews and critical texts on poetry in various magazines in Latin America, such as Buenos Aires Poetry, Letras Libres, Periódico de Poesía, Quimera and Revista de Occidente, as well as in others of the Anglo-Saxon world: Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, World Literature Today, Poetry International and International Poetry Review. Also, he has participated in literature congresses and poetry festivals in various cities in America, Europe and Asia, and he has worked as a visiting professor at different universities in California. In 2000 and 2002 he was a fellow in the poetry specialty of the Young Creators program of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, a call and institution in which he was a poetry tutor during the period 2018-2019. He coordinated the nineteenth and twentieth-century literature volume of the series El patrimonio histórico y cultural de México (1810-2010) printed in 2013 for the Mexican Library collection of the Ministry of Culture. His book Dévotion pour la pierre was published in Quebec in 2018 at the house Les Éditions de La Grenouillère in the French version by Françoise Roy. His bilingual Spanish-Italian poetry anthology Luce sotto le pietre, which the Edizoni Fili d Aquilone label prepared from his work, appeared in 2020 in Rome, Italy, translated by Alessio Brandolini. Among other recognitions, he has won the Baja California State Literature Awards, the Tijuana National Poetry Award, the Jaime Sabines International Poetry Award and the Gilberto Owen National Literature Award. He is currently part of the National System of Art Creators of Mexico.
Other activities involving the participant:
Poetry Room
Literature with eggs and machaca
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Ministerio de Cultura de España and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)
Sunday December 01
19:00 to 19:50
Salón de la Poesía, planta alta, Expo Guadalajara