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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Special activities for professionals from Spain, Guest of Honor
Activities for Professionals
Special activities for professionals from Spain, Guest of Honor
One hundred years of modern publishing in Galicia
Activities for Professionals
Special activities for professionals from Spain, Guest of Honor
One hundred years of modern publishing in Galicia
It was in November 1924. It's been a century, then, since the first modern publishing, and Galician, projects first made an appearance in our history. Ánxel Casal (the editor-martyr, murdered in August 1936) and Leandro Carré created the Lar publishing house in A Coruña, and then, in Santiago de Compostela, Edicons Nós, the great Galician publishing firm of the Republic. For the first time, there was a highly detailed business plan that sought to grow public readership in Galician. Companies that launched publishing collections, attractive covers, defined marketing strategies with seductive advertising campaigns. Modern publishing in Galicia was born.
Participant: Henrique Alvarellos Casas
Presenter: María José Gálvez
Henrique Alvarellos Casas
Invitado de Honor(Lugo, 1968) holds a degree in Hispanic Philology and a Master's in Communication. An editor, writer, and cultural activist, since 2004 he has directed Alvarellos Editora in Santiago de Compostela, a prominent publisher in Galician (founded by his father in 1977), and he has authored a dozen publications.
Since 2020, he has presided over the Asociación Galega de Editoras, an organization that groups together 46 Galician publishing companies and represents 90 percent of publishing in Galicia. Additionally, he serves as a member of the board of the Federation of Publishers' Guilds of Spain.
He has been a driving force behind various significant cultural initiatives in his region, including opening to the public the forest favored (and defended) by Rosalía de Castro, located south of Compostela (known as the Banquete de Conxo Forest), and establishing October 25 as "García Lorca Day in Galicia" in 2018.
María José Gálvez
Invitado de Honor(Valencia, 1975) She is currently the general director of Books, Comics, and Reading at the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Government of Spain, where she has the following duties: develop and implement plans, programs, and actions to promote and disseminate literary creation and translation, with specific measures for the comic medium; enhance the development of the publishing industry and the preservation of bibliodiversity and linguistic plurality; and foster the promotion of reading in all areas, particularly through library coordination, contributing to the balanced and innovative development of libraries in their public role.
Among other roles, she is a member of the boards of the National Library of Spain, the Max Aub Foundation, the Francisco Brines Foundation, and the María Zambrano Foundation. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Cervantes Institute.
She has a PhD in Law from the Universidad de Valencia (with predoctoral research stays at Harvard University, the University of Pisa, and the Free University of Brussels), and she is an expert in Constitutional Law, having completed a specialization course at the Center for Political and Constitutional Studies in Madrid. She has been an associate professor of Constitutional Law at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a tutor-professor at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC).
She was the editorial director of Tirant lo Blanch Publishing for several years, and also coordinated the editorial production of the Tirant group in various Spanish-speaking countries.
In the institutional field, she served as deputy director of the Office of the President of the Congress of Deputies and as an advisor in various offices of the First Vice Presidency of the Government.
Other activities involving the participant:
Writing goodbye
Opening Ceremony
Reading is a right!
Organiza: Asociación Gallega de Escritores
Wednesday December 04
11:00 to 11:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara