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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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One Thousand Young People with Care Santos
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One Thousand Young People with Care Santos
She started writing at the age of eight, won her first literary contest at fourteen and published her first book at 25. That's Care Santos (Barcelona, Spain, 1970), one of the most emblematic figures in children's and young adults literature, who will visit FIL Guadalajara to share her love for letters with the new generations.
It is this love that has led her to publish a vast work composed so far of fourteen novels, six books of short stories, two books of poetry, a book of aphorisms and a large number of novels for young people, among which the saga formed by Mentira, Verdad, Miedo, Ben and Los Medina.
Precisely because of her extensive and successful literary career focused on this audience, in 2020 she was awarded the Cervantes Chico Prize for Children's and Youth Literature, highlighting the originality of her themes, the treatment of the characters and the careful architecture in the structure of her stories, not to mention her unwavering commitment to promoting reading among the youngest through workshops and literary meetings.
Her work, translated into more than 20 languages, also includes titles such as Closed rooms (2011), which was adapted into a TV miniseries in 2014; Desire for chocolate (Ramon Llull Award 2014), Media Vida (2017 Nadal Award) and All Good and All Evil (2018).
Participant: Care Santos
Presenter: Chiki Fabregat
Care Santos
Invitado de Honor(Barcelona, Spain, 1970) is primarily known for her work as a novelist, but she also dabbles in short stories and poetry. She also has a very important career as the author of novels aimed at young readers, a field in which she is one of the most read authors in her country.
Her works include Media Vida (2017, Nadal Award), Habitaciones cerradas and El loco de los pájaros (2023, Destino). Her best-known novels for teens include the saga consisting of Mentira, Verdad, Miedo, Ben, Los Medina and Éric (Edebé), the novel Inbox (SM México) and the kids' novel Se vende mamá (Barco de Vapor Prize).
In 2020, she received the Cervantes Chico Award in recognition of her career. Her work has been translated into 23 languages.
Other activities involving the participant:
Fresh blood: the crime novel for young people
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:
The Pleasure of Reading Gala
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, con el apoyo del Ministerio de Cultura de España y Acción Cultural Española (AC/E)