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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
Oswaldo Hernández Trujillo
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.
Florentino Solano
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.
María José Ferrada
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
Gerald Espinoza
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Literature from Israel
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Literature from Israel
Writing for children
Creating stories for children usually does not require being reasonable but being free and not enforcing rules. Children imagine and live many lives, each under its own rules, parameters, and characters.
Etgar Keret, one of the most prominent fiction writers of his generation and an acclaimed creator of stories for children and adults, and Shira Geffen, award-winning playwright, director, and author of children’s books, share the scenarios that have given rise to some of their award-winning films, plays, and stories created together.
Geffen creates asymmetrical stories, full of detail and open to hundreds of possibilities, while Keret enjoys following a defined path in her works for children. Both have found a balance in creating stories that come to amaze the attentive gaze of young readers.
The conversation, guided by Pepe Gordon, novelist, journalist, and spokesperson, will revolve around the creative processes, childhood, parenthood, and imagination of these exceptional authors.
Participants: Shira Geffen, Etgar Keret
Presenter: Pepe Gordon
Shira Geffen
(Israel, 1971)
Shira Geffen was born in Tel Aviv in 1971. A playwright, director, children`s author and actress, she studied at the Nissan Nativ Drama Studio and has performed at the Habimah National Theater as well as at the Cameri and Khan Theaters. In 2005 she started “Knafyim” a theater group for retarded actors. Geffen has published three books for children. She was awarded First Prize at the Haifa Children`s Drama Festival in 1998 and the Hadassah Prize for children book writing in 2003. In 2007 Geffen had written and co-directed her first feature film Jellyfish (“Meduzot”), which won 3 prizes in the Cannes film festival, including the prestigious Camera d'Or. Further on, in 2014 wrote and directed the movie Self-Made (“Boreg”) which debuted at the Cannes Film Festival’s Critics Week, won the Critics Award of New Auteurs at AFI Fest, and additionally was awarded the Best Editing and Best Screenplay at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Ideas Collider
Etgar Keret
(Israel, 1967)
Born in Ramat Gan in 1967, Etgar Keret is a leading voice in Israeli literature and cinema. Keret's books were published in more than 45 languages. His writing has been published in The New York Times, Le Monde, The New Yorker, The Guardian, The Paris Review, and Zoetrope.
Keret resides in Tel Aviv and lectures at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev as a Full professor. Over 100 short movies have been based on his stories, as well as feature films.
He has received the Book Publishers Association's Platinum Prize several times, the St Petersburg Public Library's Foreign Favorite Award (2010), and the Newman Prize (2012). In 2010, Keret was honored in France with the decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 2007, Keret and Shira Geffen won the Cannes Film Festival's "Camera d'Or" Award for their movie Jellyfish, and Best Director Award of the French Artists and Writers' Guild. The two also co-wrote and directed The Middleman (2019), a French mini-series for ARTE. The series won the best screenplay award at La Rochelle fiction TV festival in France. Keret was the winner of the 2016 Charles Bronfman Prize. His latest collection, Fly Already won the most prestigious literary award in Israel- the Sapir prize (2018) as well as the National Jewish Book Award of the Jewish Book Council.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Ideas Collider
Pepe Gordon
Conductor de La hora Nacional. Colaborador en La Jornada y Reforma. Conduce y dirige La Oveja Eléctrica, revista de ciencia y pensamiento.
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Para pequeñas criaturas como nosotros
The Ideas Collider
Black holes
FIL Literature
Literature from Israel
Reinvention and survival
Eshkol Nevo is one of the most representative writers of the generational turn in Israeli writing. His works translated into Spanish include La simetría de los deseos (World Cup Wishes) (Duomo, 2014), a novel that explores what happens when the passage of time takes away dreams and dissolves ambitions; Los amores solitarios (Duomo, 2015), which leads to becoming invested in the right or wrong life decisions and their result; Los destinos Invisibles (Neuland (Duomo, 2016), a novel that includes a love story of two generations seeking new opportunities; and Tres pisos Three Floors Up (Duomo, 2019), where the author dissects Israeli society through the confessions of three neighbors in a building on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
Interviewed by Mexican writer and journalist Silvia Cherem, Nevo will share with the audience the pleasure of reinventing oneself and living different lives through writing, the happiness of imagining reality from other perspectives, and the satisfaction of creating the outcome of unfinished stories through literature.
Participant: Eshkol Nevo
Presenter: Silvia Cherem
Eshkol Nevo
(Israel, 1971)
Nació en Jerusalén, pero su infancia transcurrió entre Israel y Estados Unidos. Estudió psicología en Tel Aviv y durante un tiempo trabajó en publicidad, hasta que lo dejó todo para dedicarse a la literatura.
Es uno de los escritores más representativos del relevo generacional en la narrativa israelí. En 2005 fue galardonado con el Premio de la Book Publishers Association, y en 2008 con el Raymond Wallier, Premio que se otorga por la calidad de la escritura y su contribución al entendimiento de las culturas francesa e israelí.
Sus novelas traducidas al español incluyen La simetría de los deseos (Duomo, 2014), una obra que plantea la pregunta de qué sucede cuando el paso del tiempo se lleva los sueños y disuelve las ambiciones; Los amores solitarios (Duomo, 2015), que lleva a interesarse por las decisiones acertadas o equivocadas que se toman en la vida y el resultado al que hacen llegar a quien las toma; y Los destinos invisibles (Duomo, 2016), novela que incluye una historia de amor a través de dos generaciones que buscan nuevas oportunidades.
Su más reciente obra, Tres pisos, cuenta con la adaptación cinematográfica a cargo del realizador italiano Nani Moretti.
Silvia Cherem
Periodista y escritora, es Premio Nacional de Periodismo 2005, en el área de Crónica y tres veces semifinalista del Premio Nuevo Periodismo de la Fundación para un Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano fundada por Gabriel García Márquez. Obtuvo el Premio Instituto Cultural México Israel, la Medalla Liderazgo Anáhuac en Comunicación, el Premio Mujer Maguén David y es presidenta del International Women s Forum Capítulo México. Su escritura se distingue por desnudar el alma de sus personajes, tiene la sensibilidad, la intuición y la garra para preguntar lo que nadie se atreve; devela siempre lo más determinante de una vida. Como cronista logra que en sus relatos se respire, se huela y se sienta como si el lector estuviera inmerso en el instante que arquea la existencia. En 1994 comenzó a publicar crónicas seriadas, entrevistas de largo aliento y reportajes especiales de temáticas nacionales e internacionales de índole cultural, política, científica y social, en los periódicos del grupo Reforma. Es autora de Entre la historia y la memoria (2000), Trazos y revelaciones. Entrevistas a diez pintores mexicanos (2004), Una vida por la palabra. Entrevista a Sergio Ramírez (2004), Israel a cuatro voces. Conversaciones con David Grossman, Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshúa y Etgar Keret (2013), Cien rebanadas de sabiduría empresarial (2016) y la aclamada investigación novelada Esperanza Iris: traición a cielo abierto (2018), los dos últimos, publicados por Penguin Random House, entre otros títulos. Es coautora de Imágenes de un encuentro. La presencia judía en México durante la primera mitad del siglo XX (1992). Su entrevista a Octavio Paz “Soy otro, soy muchos”, forma parte del tomo 15 de las Obras completas del Nobel de Literatura.