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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
Important:
The call closed the past June 17th
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.
Important:
The call closed the past July 12th 
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
Important:
The call closed the past April 25th
Chile
Organized by
Universidad de Guadalajara, Coordinación General de Extensión, Coordinación de Promoción y Difusión Cultural, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Chile, Embajada de Chile en México.
Writers
Gonzalo Rojas, Volodia Teitelboim, Poli Délano, Antonio Skármeta, Raúl Zurita, Efraín Barquero, Roberto Bolaño, Carlos Cerdá, Jaime Collyer, Gonzalo Contreras, Alejandra Costamagna Crivelli, Elicura Chihuailaf, Marco Antonio de la Parra, Ana María del Río, Guido Eytel, Soledad Fariña, Carlos Franz, Alberto Fuguet, Benjamín Galemiri, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Ramón Griffero, Floridor Pérez, Jaime Quezada, Hernán Rivera Letelier, Fernando Sáenz García, Luis Sepúlveda, Marcela Serrano, Elizabeth Subercaseaux, Luis Alberto Vargas Saavedra.
Shows
Las jaivas (modern music of Andean roots); Los Tres (rock); IIIapu (Andean music); Cuarteto de guitarras de Santiago, Sol y lluvia (urban music); Inti Illimani (Andean folk); Duglas (popular music).
Plastic Arts
El lugar sin límite, contemporary chilean art; Siqueiros ilustra el Canto General de Pablo Neruda; Si vas por Chile, exhibition by chileans living in Mexico: Francisco Altamira, Carlos Arías, Osvaldo Barra, Francisco Casas, Beatriz Aurora Castedo, VÃctor Hugo Núñez, Natalie Regard; Perfiles chilenos desde la conquista, lithography.
Theater
Julio Jung Company, La Troppa Company.
Films
Historias de fútbol, director Andrés Wood; The Lady of the Camelias, director José Bohr; Misa de Réquiem, directors Guillermo Blanco, Alberto Daiber; Gringuito, director Sergio Castilla; Jackal of Nahueltoro, director Miguel Littin; Magallanes, Magallanes, directors Carlos Droguett, Marco Enrí Blind Sky, director Nicolás Acuñ Julio Begins in July, director Silvio Caiozzi; El Entusiasmo, director Ricardo Larraí La Frontera, director Ricardo Larraín.