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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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
Spain
Organized by
Universidad de Guadalajara, Coordinación General de Extensión, Coordinación de Promoción y Difusión Cultural, Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, Dirección General del Libro, Archivos y Bibliotecas del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte.
Writers
Carlos García Gual, Claudio Guillén, José Enrique Ruiz–Domènech, Gonzalo Santonja, Carlos Casares, José María Merino, Juan Manuel de Prada, Manuel Vicent, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Enrique Vila Matas, Felipe Benítez Reyes, Francisco Brines, Luis García Montero, Ángel González, Antonio Hernández, José Hierro, José Luis Corral Lafuente, Paloma Díaz–Mas, Antonio Gómez Rufo, María Luisa Balseiro, Eustaquio Barjau, José Luis Molinuevo, José Luis Pardo, Eugenio Trías, Pedro Manuel Villora, Fermín Cabal, Juan Mayorga.
Shows
Pasacalles: Grupo Libélula. Music: Café Quijano (group); Compañía Eléctrica Drama; Vicente Soto Sordera y su grupo; Mártires del compá Santamaría, dance company. Soprano: María José Montiel with Chiky Martín at the piano; Jazz-flamenco: Pedro Ogesto y su grupo, Children: Rodorín..
Plastic Arts
El libro español en los 90; Un milenio de literatura española A todo color: 75 ilustradores de libros infantiles y juveniles; Las fuentes de la memoria, propuesta 99, El cartel taurino: quites entre sol y sombra.
Theater
Ñaque by José Sánchiz Sinisterra by La Huella company; Fieras afemina Amor o Amor domestica fieras by Pedro Calderóón de la Barca.
Films
Don Juan in Hell, director Gonzalo Suárez, The Grandfather, director José Luis Garci; Backroads, director Emilio Martínez-Lá The Return of El Coyote, director Mario Camus; Los años bárbaros, director Fernando Colomo; The Dog in the Manger, director Pilar Miró (based on the play by Lope de Vega); Comanche Territory, director Gerardo Herrero (based on the book by Arturo Pérez-Reverte).