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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Out loud: the feminist echo
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Out loud: the feminist echo
More than 200 years have passed since the French writer Olympe de Gouges raised her voice in demand for equal rights between men and women, and was silenced for it. Although currently it is still far from reaching the destination port, undoubtedly the feminist struggle has traced and traveled a long way.
Marta Breen (Norway, 1976) has focused her literary work on women's history and feminism. In her books she takes a walk through the cultural history of patriarchy and revisits some battles won by the feminist movement. Lina Meruane (Chile, 1970), a writer educated in social and political vindication, shares the tensions that assail feminism in Latin America. Arantxa Urretabizkaia (Spain, 1947), transgressive in her narrative, has addressed themes such as motherhood, abandonment and toxic masculinity in a subtle but powerful way in her works.
The three writers talk, hand in hand with Colombian journalist Silvana Paternostro, about women, their steady progress throughout history and the unquestionable need to always raise their voices.
Participants: Marta Breen, Lina Meruane, Arantxa Urretabizkaia
Moderator: Silvana Paternostro
Marta Breen
(Norway, 1976)
Non-fiction writer and journalist. Her work focuses, above all, on women's history and feminism.
She made her literary debut in 2006, with a book focused on women and the challenges they face in the music industry. In 2014, she published the book Født Feminist (Born a feminist) and the best-selling work 60 damer du skulle ha møtt (60 women you should have heard about) in collaboration with illustrator Jenny Jordahl. The two also collaborated on the book F-ordet (With F for…), which won the Best Youth Textbook Award from the Norwegian Ministry of Culture.
The collaboration with Jordahl continued in her following works. In 2018 she presented Kvinner i kamp. 150 års kamp for frihet, likhet, søsterskap, which was translated into Spanish and was published that same year with RBA under the title Mujeres en lucha: 150 años de reivindicación feminista (Women in Battle). In this work, Breen and Jordahl show us, through the many battles won by the feminist movement, that the world for women is now a better place than it was 150 years ago, and that there is still a long way to go, and many battles to fight.
In 2019 she published the collection of essays Om muser og menn (Of Muses and Men) and in 2020 a book focusing on feminism, Hvordan bli (in skandinavisk) feminist. 20 veier til mer likestilling på jobben, i livet og i kjærligheten (How To Be a Scandinavian Feminist).
From 2013 to 2018, Breen has preceded the Association of Norwegian Non-Fiction Writers and Translators.
Other activities involving the participant:
Echoes of FIL
Lina Meruane
Su obra de ficción incluye los relatos reunidos en Las infantas, y cinco novelas –Póstuma, Cercada, Fruta podrida, Sangre en el ojo y Sistema nervioso– traducidas a doce lenguas. Entre sus libros de no ficción se cuentan los ensayos Viajes virales y Zona ciega, así como el ensayo personal Palestina en pedazos (versión ampliada de su anterior Volverse Palestina), el ensayo lírico Palestina, por ejemplo, y la diatriba Contra los hijos. Ensayo general, en tanto, reúne sus textos ensayísticos más breves. Ha incursionado en la dramaturgia con una adaptación teatral, Un lugar donde caerse muerta y una obra dramática: Esa cosa animal. Ha recibido los premios Metropolis Azul (Canadá 2023), Cálamo (España 2016), Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz (México 2012), Anna Seghers (Berlín 2011) y becas de escritura de la Fundación Guggenheim (USA 2004), la NEA (USA 2010), la DAAD (Alemania 2017) y Casa Cien Años de Soledad (México 2021), entre otros. Enseña escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York (USA).
Arantxa Urretabizkaia
(Spain, 1947)
Arantxa Urretabizkaia Bejarano has a History degree and works as a journalist in different media: written press, radio and television.
Her literary career has been developed for more than 50 years mainly in Basque. She has published poetry and essays, but most of her literary work focuses on narrative.
Some of her books have been translated into several languages: Spanish, English, German, Italian, Russian. The titles translate into Spanish are: ¿Por qué Panpox? (Ediciones del Mall, 1986), Saturno (Alfaguara, 1989), The red notebook (Center for Basque Studies Press, 2018), Las 3 Marías (Erein, 2011), Lecciones del Camino (Pamiela, 2018). The original in Basque of La última casa (consonni, 2024), titled Azken etxea, was published by Pamiela in 2022, and in the same year it won the Euskadi Prize for Literature in Basque.
She is a member of the Academy of the Basque Language, Euskaltzaindia.
Silvana Paternostro
Nació y vivió en Barranquilla, Colombia, hasta los quince años cuando se fue a estudiar a los Estados Unidos. Allí se hizo periodista, escribiendo en inglés y concentrándose en temas latinoamericanos. Obtuvo el Premio Paul Taylor/Dorothy Lange por sus reportajes sobre Cuba en los años noventa. La revista TIME la nombró líder latinoamericana por su voz innovadora.
Su primer libro, En la tierra de Dios y del hombre: Confrontando nuestra cultura sexual, publicado en inglés en 1997, fue seleccionado para el Premio PEN/Martha Albrand. En 2023, Planeta Colombia (Tusquets) publicó una nueva edición ahora titulada En la tierra de Dios y del hombre: Crónicas de una latinoamerica machista.
También es autora de Mi guerra con Colombia: un recorrido por el país que dejé atrás, publicado en 2007: una mezcla de memorias y reportajes característica de su trabajo; así como de Soledad y compañía, una biografía oral sobre Gabriel García Márquez, que ha sido traducida al inglés, chino, portugués, polaco, ruso y serbio.
Sus textos han aparecido en The New York Times, The Paris Review, Financial Times, The New York Review of Books y Vogue, entre otras publicaciones. Es productora asociada de The Argentine y Guerrilla de Stephen Soderbergh con Benicio del Toro.
A la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL) llega con una nueva edición ampliada de Soledad & Compañía: La vida de Gabriel García Márquez contada con la ayuda de amigos, familiares, admiradores, adversarios, compinches, mamadores de gallo, borrachos y unas cuantas personas de bien, recién publicada por Planeta.
Other activities involving the participant:
Gabriel García Márquez: ten years after his death and one hundred years after his birth
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of NORLA Norwegian Literature Abroad, Instituto Vasco Etxepare and Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio del Gobierno de Chile
Monday December 02
20:00 to 20:50
Salón 2, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara