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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Destinação Brazil
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Destinação Brazil
Brazil's literary offer is currently experiencing the greatest diversity in its history. More and more women writers are finding the conditions to publish their works, Afro-descendant groups are raising their voices and expressing their struggle through literature, and writers from indigenous peoples are sharing their creations.
The works of the participants of this edition show this plurality and invite us to review the sense of identity and belonging, coexistence, tragedy, family, violence and justice. They revisit living cultures and remember the ancestral ones.
Three dialogue tables will make up the twelfth edition of this literature cycle dedicated to the letters of that country. Readers will be able to explore the well-known Brazil, that of big cities, carnival and football, but also to discover a much more diverse Brazil, of small towns and little-explored territories; of joy, melancholy and mourning, of different traditions and cultures. Its extensive territory and multiplicity of groups, genres and languages give Brazilian literature a unique and interesting character for readers who are looking for contrasts and surprises.
Participants: Mariana Salomão Carrara, Lucrecia Zappi
Mariana Salomão Carrara
She was born in São Paulo in 1985. She is the author of Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Fairies and glasses in the corner of the house), Se deus me chamar não vou (If God calls me, I will not go) - finalist of the Jabuti Prize 2020, and É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém (It is always the time of our death amen). With Não fossem as sílabas do sábado (If it weren't for the Saturday syllables), she won the 2023 São Paulo Prize for Literature, in the category of best novel.
Other activities involving the participant:
São Paulo Prize for Literature
Lucrecia Zappi
(Argentina, 1972)
Escritora, periodista y traductora brasileña. Su infancia y adolescencia transcurrió entre São Paulo y Ciudad de México.
Es autora de tres novelas: Jaguar Negro (Benvirá, 2013), Acre (Todavia, 2017) y Deshielo (Todavía, 2023) −, traducidas al español (La Huerta Grande, España). Acre fue finalista del Premio Jabuti, el más prestigioso de Brasil, en la categoría de novela.
Con su primer libro, Mil-folhas (Cosac Naify, 2009), un viaje gastronómico por la historia de los dulces, obtuvo el Premio internacional Bologna Ragazzi en 2011.
Estudió artes visuales en la Academia Rietveld, en Ámsterdam. De regreso a Brasil, trabajó para Folha de S. Paulo durante años, cubriendo principalmente temas de arte contemporáneo. Para este periódico escribe hoy en día una columna mensual.
Vive en Nueva York, en donde hizo una maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York. Trabaja en su cuarta novela.
Other activities involving the participant:
Latin America Viva