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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Latin America Viva
FIL Literature
Latin America Viva
Participants: Santiago Wills, Magela Baudoin, Djamila Ribeiro
Moderator: Vivian Lavín
Santiago Wills
(1988). Es un escritor y periodista colombiano. Estudió filosofía en la Universidad Nacional. Cursó una maestría en periodismo en la Universidad de Columbia, y una maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York, con una beca Fulbright. Ha sido tres veces ganador del Premio Nacional de Periodismo Simón Bolívar; dos veces parte de la selección oficial del Premio Gabo, y dos veces finalista del True Story Award. Jaguar, su primera novela, fue semifinalista del Premio Herralde. Desde 2021 trabaja en un libro de crónicas sobre el jaguar y su relación con América gracias a la beca Michael Jacobs de periodismo de viajes del Hay Festival y la Fundación Gabo. Vive en Bogotá con su perro borzoi Quijote.
Other activities involving the participant:
Poetics and aesthetics of La vorágine
Magela Baudoin
Es escritora, periodista y editora boliviana-venezolana. Autora del libro de entrevistas Mujeres de costado (2010); de la novela El sonido de la H, Premio Nacional de Novela 2014 (Bolivia); y de los libros de cuentos La composición de la sal, Premio Hispanoamericano de Cuento Gabriel García Márquez (2015), y Vendrá la muerte y tendrá tus ojos, finalista del VI Premio Ribera del Duero-Páginas de Espuma en España (2020). Solo vuelo en tu caída (nouvelle), ilustrada por la artista Alejandra Alarcón, fue publicada en Argentina en 2023. Es directora y coautora del libreto de la ópera de cámara Matilde en las ojeras de la noche (2023). Su obra ha sido traducida al inglés, portugués y árabe. Recibió el Premio Anna Seghers 2021. Dirige junto con Giovanna Rivero y Ximena Santaolalla la Editorial Mantis (Bolivia), especializada en publicar la obra de escritoras hispanoamericanas.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Gala
Djamila Ribeiro
(Brazil, 1980)
Djamila Ribeiro holds a degree in Philosophy and a master’s degree in Political Philosophy from the Federal University of São Paulo. She is the coordinator of Feminismos Plurais, which includes the Feminismos Plurais Space, the Feminismos Plurais online platform, and the Sueli Carneiro editorial label, which publishes the Feminismos Plurais book collection.
She is the author of the books Lugar de Fala (Jandaíra/Feminismos Plurais), Quem tem medo do Feminismo Negro?, Pequeno Manual Antirracista, and Cartas para minha avó (Companhia das Letras), as well as Diálogos Transatlânticos (Editions Anacaona), which have been translated into several languages. She is also a guest professor at New York University (NYU) and the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (PUC-SP).
Since 2022, she has been a member of the Paulista Academy of Letters, occupying chair No. 28, and serves as a board member for the Padre Anchieta Foundation, the Pinacoteca of São Paulo, and the University of São Paulo’s Fund for students racial and gender equity. She is a columnist for the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo and served as the Deputy Secretary for Human Rights of São Paulo in 2016. She was awarded the Prince Claus Award in 2019 by the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was recognized by the BBC as one of the 100 most influential women in the world.
In 2020, she won the Jabuti Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Brazil, in the Humanities category for Pequeno Manual Antirracista. In 2021, she became the first Brazilian in history to be honored by the BET Awards, granted by the African American community in the United States. In 2023, she received the Franco-German Prize for Human Rights.
Other activities involving the participant:
Djamila Ribeiro reads Cartas para mi abuela
Vivian Lavín
(Santiago de Chile, 1967) is a journalist, writer, literary agent, and editor with over 20 years of experience in the cultural field.
In 2001, she launched the project Vuelan las plumas, the oldest literary program in Chilean broadcasting, which is also shared across a network of associated media outlets.
She has written three books of interviews with prominent Chilean and Latin American artists, intellectuals, and scientists. She is the author of Pisaremos las calles nuevamente (Editorial Cuatro Lunas, 2023).
She was a member of the jury for the Premio Iberoamericano de Narrativa Manuel Rojas 2016. She is a member of the Public Libraries Recommendation Committee of Chile and the Book and Reading Observatory.
She has been recognized by prestigious institutions such as the Society of Chilean Writers (2005), the Chilean Book Chamber (2009), and the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Chile (2010). She has also received the Premio a la Excelencia Periodística Pobre el que no cambia de mirada (2009) and the Alejandro Silva de la Fuente Award from the Chilean Academy of Language (2017).
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Gala
International Compostela Award for Illustrated Albums
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia and University of Oregón
Thursday December 05
18:00 to 18:50
Salón E, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara