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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Destinação Brazil
FIL Literature
Destinação Brazil
Brazil's literary offer is currently experiencing the greatest diversity in its history. More and more women writers are finding the conditions to publish their works, Afro-descendant groups are raising their voices and expressing their struggle through literature, and writers from indigenous peoples are sharing their creations.
The works of the participants of this edition show this plurality and invite us to review the sense of identity and belonging, coexistence, tragedy, family, violence and justice. They revisit living cultures and remember the ancestral ones.
Three dialogue tables will make up the twelfth edition of this literature cycle dedicated to the letters of that country. Readers will be able to explore the well-known Brazil, that of big cities, carnival and football, but also to discover a much more diverse Brazil, of small towns and little-explored territories; of joy, melancholy and mourning, of different traditions and cultures. Its extensive territory and multiplicity of groups, genres and languages give Brazilian literature a unique and interesting character for readers who are looking for contrasts and surprises.
Participants: Alexandre Alliatti, Rita Carelli, Amanda Julieta
Alexandre Alliatti
(Brazil, 1982)
He is a writer and journalist. With the book Tinta Branca, he won the 2023 São Paulo Prize for Literature in the “best debut novel" category and was a finalist for the 2023 Jabuti Prize in the debut writer category. He graduated in journalism from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, where he also studied literature. He has a postgraduate degree from the Vera Cruz Institute, in São Paulo, in the writers training course. As a journalist, he worked for 16 years at Rede Globo and also collaborated in media such as Piauí Magazine and the Jornal O Globo. He was born in Curitiba in 1982 and currently lives in Porto Alegre.
Other activities involving the participant:
São Paulo Prize for Literature
Rita Carelli
(Brazil, 1984)
She is a writer and illustrator, as well as an actress and filmmaker. In 2018, she created, in collaboration with the NGO Vídeo nas Aldeias, the collection Um Dia na Aldeia (Sesi). Her books Akukusia (Sesi) and Minha Família Enauenê (FTD) received the international White Ravens seal from the Munich Library and Highly Recommended by the National Children's and Youth Book Foundation (FNLIJ). The latter was a semifinalist of the Jabuti Prize, and voted best children's book by the Association of Writers of Children's and Youth Books in 2019. In 2021 she published the illustrated book Amor, o Coelho (Caixote) and the novel, Terrapreta, (Editora 34), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature in the first novel category, and of the Lessa Origins Prize, of the FNLIJ.
She is the director and screenwriter of the short films Hospedeira (2014) and of the documentaries made with the indigenous people enawenê nawê The Era of Lareokotô (2018) and Yaõkwa, image and memory (2020). The latter, made in collaboration with Vincent Carelli, was the winner of the É Tudo Verdade - International Documentary Festival in the Brazilian short film category and the Canal Brasil Acquisition Award in 2021 and the Grand Prize of Brazilian Cinema in 2022.
She is one of the idealizers of the book Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo (2019) and signs the research and organization of A vida não é útil (2020) and Futuro Ancestral (2022), the three by the indigenous thinker Ailton Krenak (Companhia das Letras). In 2022 she published the children's book Menina Mandioca (Mini Pallas), in 2023 O Caminho para a Casa de Barro (Baião) in collaboration with the indigenous artist Xadalu, and in 2024 Kuján e os meninos sabidos, with Ailton Krenak.
She is currently working on her second book, O Mundo Fora da Pedra.
Other activities involving the participant:
São Paulo Prize for Literature
Amanda Julieta
Amanda Julieta es escritora, periodista e investigadora literaria. Es licenciada en comunicación social con especialización en periodismo por el Centro Universitario Jorge Amado; con una maestría y un doctorado por el Programa de Posgrado en Literatura y Cultura de la Universidad Federal de Bahía (UFBA). Es autora del libro Dandara (Paralelo13S, 2020), ganador del Premio Pretas Potências (2023) en la categoría literatura; Tem poeta na casa? Mulheres negras, poetry slam e insurgências (¿Hay un poeta en casa? Mujeres negras, poesía slam e insurgencias) (Paralelo13S, 2023) y participa en la colección de cuentos Abrindo a boca, mostrando línguas (Abriendo la boca, mostrando lenguas, Paralelo13S, 2021).
Publicó el cuento “Apocalipse”, con temática LGBTQIAPN+ en la Revista Manifesto (2023). Como investigadora literaria publicó ensayos en los libros Leituras de Etnicidades (Segundo Selo, 2022) y Literatura y contemporaneidad: estudios de literatura afrobrasileña y africana en Brasil (Schreiben, 2023), además del artículo “Minha arma-palavra: el activismo intelectual de las mujeres negras en el slam de poesía”, en la revista Revell (UEMS, 2021).
Ha participado en varios festivales literarios como escritora invitada, como Mostra Literária de Salvador (2021), MoLiD Molidê – Mostra Literatura com Dendê – Mostra Literatura com Dendê (2021), Festa Literária Arte e Identidade (2022), Odu Xirê de Artes Negras (2022), Festa Literária Internacional do Pelourinho – Flipelô (2022, 2023), Festival Literario Internacional de Cachoeira – Flica (2022), Casa Insubmissa de Mulheres Negras (2022), Festival Literario de Lençóis – Flilençóis (2023), Festival Literario Internacional de Praia do Forte -FLIPF (2024).
También presentó trabajos en diferentes congresos y seminarios académicos: IV Seminario Internacional Deshacer Género (2019), Congreso de Investigación, Docencia y Extensión de la UFBA (2019, 2021, 2022), Seminario Estudiantil de Investigación en Letras (2020, 2021, 2022), ABRALIC Internacional Encuentro: mundos compartidos/compartidos (2022), entre otros.
FIL Literature
Destinação Brazil
Brazil's literary offer is currently experiencing the greatest diversity in its history. More and more women writers are finding the conditions to publish their works, Afro-descendant groups are raising their voices and expressing their struggle through literature, and writers from indigenous peoples are sharing their creations.
The works of the participants of this edition show this plurality and invite us to review the sense of identity and belonging, coexistence, tragedy, family, violence and justice. They revisit living cultures and remember the ancestral ones.
Three dialogue tables will make up the twelfth edition of this literature cycle dedicated to the letters of that country. Readers will be able to explore the well-known Brazil, that of big cities, carnival and football, but also to discover a much more diverse Brazil, of small towns and little-explored territories; of joy, melancholy and mourning, of different traditions and cultures. Its extensive territory and multiplicity of groups, genres and languages give Brazilian literature a unique and interesting character for readers who are looking for contrasts and surprises.
Participants: Mariana Salomão Carrara, Lucrecia Zappi
Mariana Salomão Carrara
She was born in São Paulo in 1985. She is the author of Fadas e copos no canto da casa (Fairies and glasses in the corner of the house), Se deus me chamar não vou (If God calls me, I will not go) - finalist of the Jabuti Prize 2020, and É sempre a hora da nossa morte amém (It is always the time of our death amen). With Não fossem as sílabas do sábado (If it weren't for the Saturday syllables), she won the 2023 São Paulo Prize for Literature, in the category of best novel.
Other activities involving the participant:
São Paulo Prize for Literature
Lucrecia Zappi
(Argentina, 1972)
Escritora, periodista y traductora brasileña. Su infancia y adolescencia transcurrió entre São Paulo y Ciudad de México.
Es autora de tres novelas: Jaguar Negro (Benvirá, 2013), Acre (Todavia, 2017) y Deshielo (Todavía, 2023) −, traducidas al español (La Huerta Grande, España). Acre fue finalista del Premio Jabuti, el más prestigioso de Brasil, en la categoría de novela.
Con su primer libro, Mil-folhas (Cosac Naify, 2009), un viaje gastronómico por la historia de los dulces, obtuvo el Premio internacional Bologna Ragazzi en 2011.
Estudió artes visuales en la Academia Rietveld, en Ámsterdam. De regreso a Brasil, trabajó para Folha de S. Paulo durante años, cubriendo principalmente temas de arte contemporáneo. Para este periódico escribe hoy en día una columna mensual.
Vive en Nueva York, en donde hizo una maestría en escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York. Trabaja en su cuarta novela.
Other activities involving the participant:
Latin America Viva