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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Experiences in vocational training. The case of the Jesús Raúl Anaya Rosique Chair of Book Studies.
Activities for Professionals
Special activities for professionals
Experiences in vocational training. The case of the Jesús Raúl Anaya Rosique Chair of Book Studies.
During the first edition of the Jesús R. Anaya Rosique Chair, the topic of editorial decision-making and its importance in the planning and organization of the editorial catalogue was widely addressed. In the following editions, topics of great importance regarding strategic aspects of the development of a publishing company will be addressed. The current dynamic leads to book studies being a permanent open field in the cultural, social, legal, business, technological and commercial spheres, which is where the Chair aims to fill an existing gap in the training of editors.
Participants: Carlos Anaya, Arturo Ahmed Romero
Carlos Anaya
Editor with over 50 years of experience in the field. Chancellor of the University of Book Sciences and Arts (UNICAL). Advocate for compensatory remuneration for authors for private copying. He has proposed the creation of a book institute to unify the various sectors of the book world. He was President of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (CANIEM) and received the Guild Merit Medal in 2013. He is currently the Vice President of the Coalition for Legal Access to Culture, an organization that brings together groups representing and defending the rights of authors in Mexico.
Other activities involving the participant:
Panel: The Importance of Collective Action in Defending Copyrights
Arturo Ahmed Romero
Arturo Ahmed Romero has a degree in Business Administration from UNAM. He has a Master's degree in Corporate Administration from Universidad Panamericana and a Master's degree in Business Management for Experienced Executives from IPADE, the Pan-American Institute for Senior Business Management.
Professor and founder of the Institute for Professional Development for Booksellers (Indeli), of which he is president of the board of directors. Founder of the University of Book Sciences and Arts, the first in Latin America.
He has also served for more than 18 years as an advisor to the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (Caniem), on various committees. He has been a guest professor at Universidad Panamericana, Universidad de Xalapa, Universidad Panamericana (Campus Guadalajara), UAM-Xochimilco. He has been a professor of different specialization courses at Caniem-Editamos. He is the academic coordinator of the Ramón López Velarde Chair (Indeli), and of the training program for employees, managers and bookstore directors. He has been the executive president of the Congress of Mexican Booksellers (Colime) for 23 years.
He is a founding partner of Editora y Distribuidora Fausto, a company founded in June 1987.
He is a founding member of the Center for Innovation and Professional Development for the Publishing Industry, Editamos, of Caniem, and its first general director. During his tenure, he was in charge of defining and conceptualizing the company, its constitution and legal personality, defining and developing the training program for editors, and monitoring projected results.
He has worked in various executive and management positions in the publishing and bookselling industry for 50 years. On February 17, 2020, he was appointed Vice-Rector of the University of Book Sciences and Arts, an institution founded in 2011 by academics and professionals related to the publishing and bookselling sector.
Organiza: Unical y el Indeli
Tuesday December 03
10:00 to 11:50
Salón A, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara