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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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The Pleasure of Reading Gala
FIL Literature
The Pleasure of Reading Gala
Participants: Gabi Martínez, Magela Baudoin, Chiki Fabregat
Moderator: Vivian Lavín
Gabi Martínez
Invitado de HonorShe is a writer. His work, translated in 10 countries and adapted to various narrative formats, has received numerous awards and acknowledgements, especially his non-fiction books, In the land of giants, Un cambio de verdad, En la Barrera, Naturalmente urbano, Lagarta and the novels Sudd, Voy and Las defensas. Delta was chosen the best book of 2023 by the literary magazine WMagazín.
Protagonist of the episode Colombian massif in the documentary series Finding Encanto, awarded a Dolphin at the Cannes Festival.
He is the director of the Liternatura Festival, a founding member of the Caravana Negra and Lagarta Fernández associations, of the Urban and Territorial Ecology Foundation, and co-director of the project “Invisible Animals”.
Other activities involving the participant:
Some rain without ice, please: the world is thirsty
Written with ink and chlorophyll
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:
Latin America Viva
Chiki Fabregat
Invitado de Honoris the daughter of a children's story writer and grew up listening to stories in which she and her siblings were the protagonists. She has a degree in Hispanic Philology from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and coordinates the Children's and Young Adult Literature department at the Escuela de Escritores. She teaches in-person courses and specialized subjects in the Master's program in Fiction and the Specialization Course in Teaching Creative Writing. She balances her work at the Escuela de Escritores with writing, promoting reading among children and adolescents, and training teachers.
She has published the Zoila collection of young adult fantasy literature with Edebé, and the novel Cuando la luna llora, which was a finalist for the XXVII Edebé Prize. With Diquesí, she published the children's novel Trece días para arreglar a papá, and with DNX, El año de la guarida. She is the co-author of the books Cuentos para educar II, Cuentos para prevenir, Cuentos para coeducar, Cuentos para fomentar la autoestima, and Cuentos sobre el ocio activo from the Spanish Confederation of Associations of Parents and Mothers of Students (CEAPA), as well as the Los superhéroes collection under the collective pseudonym Isaura Lee. In 2021, she won the Premio SM Gran Angular with El cofre de na
Other activities involving the participant:
One Thousand Young People with Care Santos
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:
Latin America Viva
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Ministerio de Cultura de España and Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the University of Oregón