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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Annual International Booksellers Forum - Meeting of Ibero-American Independent Bookstores and Publishers: “Otra Mirada”
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Annual International Booksellers Forum - Meeting of Ibero-American Independent Bookstores and Publishers: “Otra Mirada”
Mosaic II:
Two Shores, One Ocean, Multiple Accents
On the occasion of Spain being the Guest of Honor at the Guadalajara International Book Fair 2024, the 5th International Booksellers Forum and the 6th Meeting of Ibero-American Independent Bookstores and Publishers, "Another Perspective," will be held jointly. These two internationally renowned professional events are key references for the book sector in Spain and Latin America.
The dual event, organized by Librería Carlos Fuentes, the Guadalajara International Book Fair, the University of Guadalajara Press, and Librería Cálamo, is sponsored by the Spanish Ministry of Culture. It aims to analyze the current state of editorial relationships between Mexico, Spain, and Latin America, glimpse their future, and contribute to the creation of permanent networks for cultural, social, and economic collaboration.
The events will take place from December 1 to 3, 2024, as part of the FIL Guadalajara professional program, and will feature debate panels, conferences, workshops, and networking opportunities.
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Annual International Booksellers Forum - Meeting of Ibero-American Independent Bookstores and Publishers: “Otra Mirada”
Mosaic II:
Bookstore and Publishing Experiences Worth Admiring and Healthy Imitation: A Series of Engaging and Essential Micro-Conferences.
Participants: Dores Tembrás, María Mur Dean, Munts Brunet Navarro, Nicolás Leyton, Víctor Malumián, Isabella Varela, Antía Otero
Dores Tembrás
Invitado de Honor(Bergondiño, La Coruña, 1979) holds a degree in Spanish Philology, completed in 2001, and specializes in Hispanic American literature. In 2008, after years of research and various stays in Sweden, Madrid, and Buenos Aires, she defended her doctoral thesis: La obra poética de Alejandra Pizarnik. Arquitectura de un desencuentro (The Poetic Work of Alejandra Pizarnik. Architecture of a Disencounter).
In 2009, she published her first poetry collection, O pouso do fume (The Landing of Smoke). Since then, her poetic works have included Esquiagrafías, Diapositivas a clareo, Silabario, and Opium. In 2016, she published the pamphlet Auga a través (Water Through), and in 2023, the poetry collection Enxertos (Grafts). Her first children’s poetry book, O peizoque Roque, was released in 2012.
In 2013, she won the Premio de Poesía Concello de Carral with her work Cronoloxía da urxencia (Chronology of Urgency). Her texts have been translated into various languages (Basque, Catalan, Spanish, English, German, Ukrainian, Croatian, Bulgarian, and Estonian) and included in magazines, collective works, and international anthologies.
Her poetic work is characterized by brevity and precision. Ancestry, memory, childhood, and the connection to the rural environment shape a space where the poetic self delves into language, giving silence a place of preference.
In 2014, she co-founded the cultural project Apiario with fellow writer Antía Otero. Apiario focuses on two main areas: a school dedicated to training, offering creative and poetic writing courses, and another area dedicated to publishing. It is an independent project that emphasizes the importance of the book as an object. Its catalog, focused on poetry, aims to give each original work individual identity, with the design of each book tailored to its specific needs. Over the past decade, Apiario has received recognition and awards highlighting the excellence of its editorial work.
www.dorestembras.com
www.apiario.eu
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María Mur Dean
Invitado de HonorShe has been working at the independent publishing and cultural space consonni since 1999. Consonni, which has been producing and editing critical culture since 1996, is written in lowercase and is a mutant, androgynous, and polycephalous entity, with feminism and listening as its "superpowers." In addition, Mur uses written, spoken, or even silenced words in various formats, publishing in different media, and contributing to debates on cultural policies, feminism, and the potential of culture to create a public sphere.
www.consonni.org
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Munts Brunet Navarro
Invitado de Honor(Sabadell, 1987), a feminist and graduate in Fine Arts, is captivated by the capacity of everyday and collective practices to impact production methods as well as the direction of projects and editions. She has been a driving force behind multiple neighborhood collaborative projects, which operate from a self-managed model focused on sovereignty and feminism. Since 2010, she has been part of the editorial and cultural space consonni, which has been producing and editing critical culture since 1996. Consonni is written in lowercase and is a mutant, androgynous, polycephalous entity, with feminism and listening as its superpowers.
www.consonni.org
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Nicolás Leyton
He has worked as a contributor to written media and as a university professor for 10 years. Since 2010, he has been a partner and founder of La Pollera Ediciones, where he manages and directs projects as well as edits the books published by the editorial house. At the end of 2022, he joined Big Sur, a book distributor based in Chile and Argentina, as the head of New Business. He also participates in the La Furia del Libro team as the person responsible for the internationalization of the fair.
Víctor Malumián
Bachelor's degree in Communication Sciences (UBA). Along with Hernán López Winne, he founded Ediciones Godot in 2008. In 2012, they created the Feria de Editores, which, in its latest edition, welcomed over 330 publishers from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In 2016, he co-authored the book "Independientes ¿de qué?" published by Fondo de Cultura Económica in Mexico. In 2017, he co-founded Carbono, a distributor providing logistical solutions to Ediciones Godot, Gourmet Musical, Sigilo, Barrett, Chai, and El Gato y la Caja. In 2023, they launched "Metonimia libros," a small bookstore in the northern area of Buenos Aires. In 2024, he published "El destino de una caja" with the editorial Gris Tormenta, which explores the vicissitudes of book distribution and cooperation among colleagues.
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Isabella Varela
Bookseller, cultural manager, and editor with over ten years of experience in the publishing sector. She graduated in Social Communication with an emphasis on editorial and multimedia production from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana. She is currently the curator, head bookseller, and cultural manager at La Verbena, a bookstore and cultural center in northern Bogotá, recognized by the BibloRed Directorate of Reading and Libraries as an innovative practice in the mediation and promotion of reading, writing, and oral culture in the city. She has worked as a bookseller at Libélula Libros (Armenia) and FCE (Bogotá). Her mission as a bookseller is to create inclusive, gentle, and welcoming spaces to connect readers of all ages with books as a means of dialogue and to contribute to strengthening the community.
Antía Otero
Invitado de Honor(A Estrada, 1982) holds a degree in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela and has received academic training in the fields of performing arts and cinema. She works between the worlds of writing and publishing.
Since 2014, she has co-directed the cultural project, writing school, and independent publishing house Apiario, alongside poet Dores Tembrás. Over the years, Apiario has been recognized by readers and critics as one of the leading Galician publishers, noted for both the artisanal care in the creation processes and the excellence in editing. The originality of the volumes in their catalog has earned them multiple accolades.
As a poet, she has published individual poetry collections including O Son da Xordeira (2003, Espiral Maior), Retrovisor (2010, Edicións Xerais; finalist for the Premios AELG), and O cuarto das abellas (2016, Edicións Xerais; Award for Best Book of Poetry at the II Gala do Libro Galego). Her most recent collection, Barroco (2022, Apiario), was awarded twice at the Premios Follas Novas do Libro Galego in the categories of Book of Poetry and Edition. In 2017, she published O branco non pinta! (Apiario), her first foray into children’s literature, which was selected by the Spanish Organization for Children’s and Young Adult Books (OEPLI) for its catalog that same year.
Her poetic work seeks the gaps of what cannot be seen at first glance, the light and its frames, the possibilities of the ephemeral and memory, the challenging dialogue between image and word, the tension of the domestic, and the margins of history.
Her work can be found in various magazines (Dorna, Olga, Grotta, Ínsula), collective works, and anthologies.
Her texts have been set to music by Galician musical bands such as Chicharrón, Fanny & Alexander, Xosé Manuel Budiño, and Guadi Galego.
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