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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Authors who participated
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She is a bilingual writer, in Portuguese and Spanish. She has a PhD in communication and semiotics from PUC-São Paulo, and a degree in history and philosophy of science. Creator and coordinator of the Texts Creation and Development Workshop-Laboratory (collective, in-person, online). She is an independent translator, teacher and researcher. She has published, in addition to more than twelve collective books, A Ordem Secreta dos Ornitorricos (Brazil, Amauta, 2008, Peru, Borrador, 2009, Mexico, Aldus, 2014), Novela suvenir (Mexico, Fonca-Santa Muerte Cartonera, 2009, and 2013 Editorial, 2014, Peru, Punto de Narrativa, 2010), No hacerlo (Mexico, Librosampleados, 2014), Muestra táctil and Ensayo para no morir en la playa (Curitiba, Medusa, 2017), Gx2-Realidade total (São Paulo, Desconciertos, 2017).
She was curator, among others, of the Transitive Americas project, carried out in Curitiba and Foz do Iguaçu, in 2017. She participated in anthologies, artistic projects and residencies in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, the United States, Argentina, Spain, Japan, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Italy. Reviews, commentaries and academic articles on her work have been published in Brazil, Portugal, United States, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, among others.
She has participated in literary fairs and festivals in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. She also collaborated in various media in several countries with articles, essays, fiction.
Her creative work includes collective works and performances with different groups, materials, languages and proposals. She has taught courses, as a visiting professor, among others, at the Federal University of Paraná (master's degree and doctorate in Latin American literature) and at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC) (master's degree in creative writing and doctorate in history).
Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in the United States. She graduated in law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She joined the faculty of the Unknown University of Brooklyn under the presidency of Enrique Vila-Matas. She was a student of the Disquiet International Program in Lisbon, thanks to the scholarship from the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD). She is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Literary Arts program.
Published in La Cause Littéraire, Colóquio - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Curious Fiction, Words without Borders, São Paulo Review, Jornal Rascunho, Revista InComunidade and Cenas Magazine (Raimundo Carrero Cultural Center). She is a columnist and curator of the magazine Philos –Latin Union Journal of Literature.
Her books published by the publisher Confraria do Vento are: Colisões Bestiais (Particle)res (2015); Jogos (Ben)ditos e Folias (Mal)ditas (2017); Artist's Caderno (2022) and A Patafísica do Quadrado, um romance na rota das galochas (2022). Earlier, she published Forrageiras de Jade (2009) and Forasteiros (2013) by the Projeto Dulcinéia Catadora.
She participated and organized in various anthologies and collections, including Nosotros Editor Oito e Meio (2017) and Perdidas: histórias para crianças que não tem vez, Imã Editorial (2018).
In Portugal, her book Baleias, Bromélias e Outra Naturezas it was published by the Publisher Gato Bravo in 2022, and she has a book of poetic essays printed by the Publishing House Editorial Húmus, Lisbon. She received the Writer Without Borders Award at the Flipoços literary festival in 2018. In 2020 she was a guest writer at the IX Portuguese Language Meeting organized by the University of Massachusetts/Boston and the Camões Institute. She is a frequent guest writer at the West Point Academy, Columbia University and the Camões Institute. She has participated in several international fairs and festivals such as the FIL Guadalajara, LitFestBergen, Folio/Óbidos, New York Poetry Festival, Lincoln Center.
She has several projects underway (novels and illustrated books).
Guiomar de Grammont is a writer, playwright, professor at the Federal University of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais, and exhibitions and literary events curator. She has a PhD in Brazilian literature from the University of São Paulo (USP). She has published, among others, Os livros na minha vida, Aleijadinho e o Aeroplano, Sudário (Casa de Las Américas Award, from Cuba) and the novel Palavras Cruzadas (Pen-Clube National Narrative Award 2017), in French, German and Spanish, by the Fondo de Cultura Económica. She was editor of the publishing house Record, and curator of the homage to Brazil at the Paris Book Fair (2015). She created and coordinates since 2005, the Forum of the Letters of Ouro Preto, in its 18th edition in 2023.
In her psychological and polyphonic novels and plays she addresses the impact of the disappearance of political prisoners, especially from the perspective of women and environmental tragedies such as Mariana's, caused by mining. In the records of the Casa de Las Américas Prize, renowned juries: Davi Arrigucci Júnior, Silviano Santiago and Trinidad Pérez Valdéz wrote:
"This text contains stories that reveal to us the qualities of a new and promising female voice in the current panorama of Brazilian letters...”. A fictional universe of remarkable and complex dramatic energy expressed through a dry and concise language.
Under the narrator's lucid gaze, the ecstasy of love turns into death, into self-destruction, and a pathetic poetry emerges from the bodies that are searching in vain for a unity that is, perhaps, irretrievable.
Morgana Kretzmann is a writer and screenwriter. Author of the novel Ao Pó (Patuá), winner of the 2021 São Paulo Prize for Literature São Paulo Literature Prize in the category Best Debut Novel. Her next books, Água Turvo and Safra de Sangue, which will complete the "narratives of the red earth", will be edited by the Companhia das Letras. As a screenwriter, she worked on the series Tarã, for the Disney+ streaming channel, which will debut this year. Directed and scripted the project Autoras em cena, by Itáu Cultural, in audiovisual format. The episodes are available on digital platforms for free. She was born near the border of Argentina, in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. She lives in the city of São Paulo.
Amara Moira is a is a writer, transgender, she earned her PhD in theory and literary criticism with a thesis on Ulysses, by James Joyce. She's the author of the books E se eu fosse puta (translated to Spanish by Mandacaru Editorial in 2022, in Argentina), where she writes about her experiences as a sex worker, and Neca + 20 Poemetos Travessos (O Sexo da Palavra, 2021), in which she brings together her poetic creation about LGBTQIA+ experiences and a small version of her monologue in bajubá, the language of Brazilian transgenders (the monologue will be out next year in an extended edition). In addition, the translation of Continuadísimo, by the Argentine transgender writer Naty Menstrual, is in charge and will be released this year in Brazil.
Luiza Romão is a Brazilian poet, actress and slammer. Her book, Também guardamos pedras aquí was the winner of the Jabuti Award for best book of the year and best poetry book in 2022, it was published in Brazil by Editora Nós; in France, by Nossa Éditions and in Mexico, by Círculo de Poesía.
In her work she investigates the hybridisms between poetry, performance and film, discussing issues such as gender violence and colonialism. She is also the author of Nadine (Editora Quelônio/Brazil; Editora Mandacaru/Argentina) and Sangría (Portuguese/Spanish edition by the doburro label, Brazil).
He was born in Rio de Janeiro, in 1977, and lives in Porto Alegre. He holds a doctorate in literary theory from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUC-RS). Columnist in newspapers Zero Hora and Uol/Folha de São Paulo until April 2023. He was a visiting professor of literature at Brown University, USA. His texts have been adapted for the theater and his short stories have been translated into English and Spanish. He is the author of Estela without God (2018) and The Flipside of Skin (2020), which won the Jabuti Award. He sold the rights to Portugal, Italy, England, Canada, France, Mexico, Slovakia, Sweden, China, Belgium and the United States.
Tenório presents an unusual ability to conceive and structure characters, and to deal with the complexities and tragedies of family relationships. His works have consolidated him as one of the most powerful and courageous voices in contemporary Brazilian literature.
He is the winner of the Leya, Océanos and Jabuti Awards. He was born in Salvador, Bahia. Writer, geographer and a PhD in ethnic and African studies. His novel, Crooked Plow is one of the greatest public and critical successes of Brazilian literature in many decades; it has been translated in more than 20 countries. The book inspired the play After the Silence (2022), by Christiane Jatahy, award-winning director at the Venice Biennale. He also published the book of short stories Doramar ou a Odisseia, and his most recent novel, Salvar o Fogo.
He was born in 1984 in Porto Alegre and moved to São Paulo. He is a writer, translator, teacher and editor. He is the author of several novels, including Uma tristeza infinita (2021), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature, As Preguntas (2017). He holds a PhD in Literary Theory from the University of São Paulo and he teaches creative writing workshops and literature and philosophy courses, covering topics such as Roberto Bolaño, Thomas Pynchon, Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory. He currently works as a fiction editor at Companhia das Letras, in charge of the Penguin classics label.