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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Latin America Viva
FIL Literature
Latin America Viva
Participants: Magalí Etchebarne, Daniela Catrileo, Isabel Zapata
Moderator: Benito Taibo
Magalí Etchebarne
Nació en Buenos Aires, Argentina, en 1983. Estudió letras en la Universidad de Buenos Aires y trabaja como editora. Publicó relatos en revistas literarias y antologías, el libro de cuentos Los mejores días (2017), toda una referencia en el cuento contemporáneo argentino, y el libro de poemas Cómo cocinar un lobo (2023), una inmensa y conmovedora propuesta en torno a la pérdida y al duelo.
Other activities involving the participant:
Ribera del Duero Prize for Short Fiction
Daniela Catrileo
Es escritora y profesora de filosofía. Ha publicado los libros de poesía Río herido (Edicola, 2016), Guerra florida (Del Aire, 2018), El territorio del viaje (Edicola, 2021), Las aguas dejaron de unirse a otras aguas (Pez Espiral, 2020), Todas quisimos ser el sol (Las Guachas, Argentina, 2023). El libro de relatos Piñen (Pez Espiral, 2019; Las Afueras 2022), la novela Chilco (Seix Barral, 2023) y el libro ensayo Sutura de las aguas. Un viaje especulativo sobre la impureza (Kikuyo, 2024). Recibió el Premio Municipal de Literatura de Santiago, mención poesía (2019), el Premio Mejores obras literarias, mención cuento (2020) y el primer lugar del concurso Ax: Encuentro de las Culturas Indígenas y Afrodescendiente (2020) por su obra audiovisual Llekümün.
Other activities involving the participant:
Written with ink and chlorophyll
New masculinities: deconstructing to build better men?
Isabel Zapata
Born in Mexico City in 1984. She studied Political Science at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York. She is the author of the books Las noches son así, Alberca vacía, Una ballena es un país, In vitro, Tres animales que caben en el agua and Troika. Her work has been included in Mexican media such as the Revista de la Universidad de México, Periódico de poesía and Letras libres, among others, and in international media like World Literature Today (US) and Ancrages (Canada). In 2015, she founded, with four friends, Ediciones Antílope, which, under the slogan “we make books we would like to read,” has consolidated a catalog that spans fiction, non-fiction, poetry and essay.
Other activities involving the participant:
Memory of oblivion
Benito Taibo
(México, 1960) es escritor, periodista y entusiasta promotor de la lectura entre los jóvenes. Inició su camino en la literatura como poeta con Siete primeros poemas (1976), Vivos y suicidas (1978), Recetas para el desastre (1987) y De la función social de las gitanas (2002). Ha publicado en Planeta sus novelas Polvo (2010), Persona normal (2011), Querido Escorpión (2013), Desde mi muro (2014), Cómplices (2015), Corazonadas (2016) y la trilogía Mundo sin dioses: Camino a Sognum (2018), La razón y la ira (2019), Caos y destino (2020), Pasar inadvertido (Seix Barral, 2022). Su libro más reciente es Cuatro veranos (Planeta, 2023). Su obra es un referente ineludible en el panorama literario contemporáneo.
Other activities involving the participant:
Poetry Room
From the trench to the frying pan
From the trench to the frying pan
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Páginas de Espuma Publishing House, Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio del Gobierno de Chile and Editorial Almadía
Monday December 02
18:00 to 18:50
Salón E, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara