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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
Marco Antonio Rodríguez Murillo
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.
Juana Peñate Montejo
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.
Yolanda Reyes
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 11th 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
FIL Literary Prize bestowed by the Civil Association Prize for Literature in Romance Languages
Emmanuel
Carrère
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Emmanuel Carrère (Paris, 1957) is one of France’s most acclaimed writers. His prolific, versatile and broad body of work spans diverse creative terrain, from writing to producing, and screenwriting for film and television. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His non-fiction novels give literary form to the events that happen around him. In his works ranging from biographies, reporting and autofiction, he has developed a unique style that has made him into one of today’s most-read and influential authors. Several of his books have been made into films, and in 2005 he directed the cinematographic adaptation of his novel The Mustache (1986). Throughout his career Carrère has received numerous awards, including the Renaudot, the Femina, the Duménil or the prize given out by the French newspaper, Le Monde. Some of his numerous works include: La classe de neige (1995), The Adversary (2000), A Russian Novel (2007), Lives Other than My Own(2009), Limonov (2011), The Kingdom (2014), and The Mustache (1986), mentioned above.