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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
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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
FIL Literary Prize bestowed by the Civil Association Prize for Literature in Romance Languages
Norman Manea
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“Norman Manea is the author of an extensive body of work that cannot be defined by traditional literary genres [...] In the face of history’s catastrophes of and the exiles to which we have been subjected, Manea’s works asks, poignantly and ironically—how can we define ourselves in this world of changing mirrors?,” reads the judging panel’s decision. The judges also mentioned Manea’s extensive body of work, which has been translated into over thirty languages. “The main character of his work is the Wandering Jew, who is brought to life with multiple personalities and in different eras. Old Europe and the New World are intertwined in Manea’s work as a stage for his pilgrimages, with a striking, and many times dark, sense of humor.”
Born in Suceava (Bucovina, Rumania) on July 19, 1936, his life and work have been marked by his childhood experiences in a concentration camp, and his life under a communist dictatorship and in exile. Some of his most well-known works include The Hooligan’s Return (2003), Compulsory Happiness (1999), The Black Envelope (1986), On Clowns: The Dictator and the Artist (1997), The Fifth Impossibility (2012), The Trenchcoat (1990) and his collected stories in the volume Proust’s Tea (2010). His numerous distinctions include being granted a Guggenheim Fellowship, a MacArthur Fellowship, the New York Public Library’s Literary Medal, the International Nonino Prize for Literature, becoming an elected member of the Berlin Academy of Art in 2006, winning the Prix Médicis étranger and the Medal for Cultural Merit (granted by the president of Romania in 2007), and receiving honorary PhDs from Bucharest and Cluj universities in Rumania) and from France’s Legion of Honor (2008).