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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
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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With humor and irony: narrating in turbulent times
FIL Literature
With humor and irony: narrating in turbulent times
Two of the most significant writers of Ukraine’s contemporary literary scene, Yuri Andrukhovych and Yevheniya Kuznetsova, will take over FIL Guadalajara to talk with the Mexican writer Ana García Bergua about the role that humorous resources play in literature, in particular the sense of humor, insight and imagination.
Andrukhovych, a prose, poetry and essay writer, as well as a translator, is one of the founders of the Bu-Ba-Bu literary group, with a focus on postmodernism in his country. His works have been translated into 22 languages and have earned him awards such as the Herder Prize (2001), the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize (2005) and the Central European Literary Award Angelus (2006), in addition to that, his work Twelve Circles received the European Approach Award (2006).
For her part, Kuznetsova is a writer, translator and researcher. She graduated from the Kiev National University, and later from a doctorate in literary analysis in Spain. Currently, she focuses on media research, specializing in reporting on sensitive conflicts and combating disinformation, while translating fiction and non-fiction works. In 2023 she won the Book of the Year Award in Ukraine for her novel The Ladder, and was nominated for the European Union Literature Prize in 2022.
Mexican writer Ana García Bergua will join forces with the two Ukrainian writers. She was awarded the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize in 2013 for her novel La bomba de San José, within the FIL Guadalajara.
Participants: Yuri Andrukhovych, Yevheniya Kuznetsova, Ana García Bergua
Moderator: Haska Shyyan
Yuri Andrukhovych
(Ukraine, 1960)
Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the most significant writers at the contemporary literary scene in Ukraine. He is a prose writer, poet, essayist, translator, and public intellectual. His works have been translated and published in Poland, Germany, Canada, Hungary, Finland, Croatia, United States, Sweden, Spain and other countries – all together into 22 languages. Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the cofounders of the Bu-Ba-Bu literary group, which is associated with the emergence of Ukrainian postmodernism. He is an author of seven novels, and a few poetry and essays collections. ©Yana Stephanyshyn Andrukhovych has been awarded numerous national and international prizes, including the Herder Prize, the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding, the Angelus Award, the Hannah Arendt Prize, and the Goethe Medal.
Other activities involving the participant:
European Literature Festival
Yevheniya Kuznetsova
(Ukraine)
Author, translator, and researcher. She graduated from Kyiv National University and later earned her PhD in literary analysis in Spain. Currently, Yevheniya focuses on media research, specializing in conflict-sensitive reporting and countering disinformation, while also translating fiction and non-fiction. Her debut book, Cook in Sorrow, was published in 2020. Her second book, Ask Miechka, was shortlisted for the BBC News Ukraine Book of The Year in 2021. Yevheniya Kuznetsova won the BBC News Ukraine Book of the Year in 2023 for her novel The Ladder, alongside presenting a nonfiction work on Soviet linguistic and identity policies. She was also nominated for the European Union Prize for Literature in 2022.
Haska Shyyan
Ukrainian writer, translator and poet. In 2014, debuted with the novel Hunt, Doctor, Hunt!
Haska’s second novel Behind Your Back written in 2016 - 2017 and published in 2019 won the European Union Prize for Literature and two Ukrainian literary awards. The book is translated into nine foreign languages.
In 2024 the first kids' book by Haska Shyyan Padormirs, Slowers and Madame President’s Missing Daughter was published.
During the last decade, Haska lives between Lviv, Kyiv and Brussels and works as an expert in international strategic communications, creative industries and policymaking.
Author of the essay Lo conoces tú mejor for the book Ucrania en su Historia y sus historias. Ensayos de intelectuales ucranianos recently published in Spanish
Organiza: Ukrainian Institute and FIL Guadalajara
Thursday December 05
19:00 to 20:50
Salón E, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara