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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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 2nd
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 2025 Program
Awards and Prizes FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages Publishing Merit Award Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize José Luis Martínez Bibliophile tribute Librarian Tribute Tribute to La Catrina Caricature ArpaFIL Tribute National Fernando Benítez Tribute to Cultural Journalism Collaboration Prizes
Barcelona, Invitado de Honor Literary Program Guest of Honor Pavilion FIL Forum Shows Visual Arts Performing arts Barcelona's Film Series Culinary Festival
FIL Literature Opening of the Carlos Fuentes Literary Lounge Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa The Truth of Stories: Chimamanda in Mexico Friends of Amin Maalouf, FIL Award in Romance Languages Annual International Storytellers Conference European Literature Festival The Pleasure of Reading Gala Expanded Poetry Evening The Poetry Room Maps of a world yet to come: narratives of speculative fiction Latin America Viva The journey of a travel chronicle El País Naming Central America, Because Central America Counts The literature that disturbs Literature by the ear The other side of the essay Between the immense and the intimate. Women poets of Quebec Land and memory: Reconstructing history Enigma and betrayal: Reconstructing history Southern literature Literature, identity, and resistance Bad mothers Ibargüengoitia in Luis Estrada’s cinematic vision: style, satire, and narrative Galician Literature The Latin American chronicle: from writing to translation Experience, narrative, and resilience Destinação Brazil Creating worlds and inhabiting silences Spanish: A cultural DNA of many languages The great football chroniclers The penalty: 11 steps to glory Uruguayan fiction territories from Onetti’s Santa María From book to screen: women’s voice and agency A shared look at literature: stories between east and west Que nuestra alegría perdure. Contemporary literature from Quebec Panel on The Crystal Cuckoo Gabriela Mistral: 80 years since the Nobel Prize Meeting of Literatures in the Indigenous Languages of the Americas International Congress of Mexican Literature From book to screen International Conference of Cartoon and Comic
FIL Science Why do we die? Microbes: are they my friends? The secrets of the brain How do my neurons work? Genetic editing: the power to rewrite life Secrets of neuroplasticity Authoritarianism: a threat to science Aging hand in hand with science Science and art The sixth extinction: magnitude and consequences Navigating Mexican seas in search of social, economic, and environmental well-being Science on a soccer field Mental health: how to support those in need 40 years since the 1985 earthquake Materials, Art and Color Ocean literacy: the importance of textbooks for bringing mexican seas closer to primary schools Discover the causes of neurodegenerative diseases Quantum tales and beyond Harmonies of the Universe: how music inspires science Let’s apply STEM education Science, even in the kitchen! How does CRISPR gene editing work? Quantum Science and Technology, 100 years later A tour of MUMAT, the Virtual Mathematics Museum Communicating science: challenges and tools Do you know how drones work? International Astronomy Colloquium: Universe and Society The mysteries of learning The role of women in science
FIL for Young People One Thousand Young People with Amin Maalouf, FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages One Thousand Young People with Maite Carranza One Thousand Young People with Rosa Montero One Thousand Young People with Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón One Thousand Young People with Joan Manuel Serrat One Thousand Young People with Cristina Rivera Garza Journey to the center of the AI Reclaiming to revolutionize: owning female pleasure Romantasy: epic loves in magical worlds My first credit card: how to survive the monster of adulthood Bodies in transit: writing the self beyond labels Perreo, electro, and punk in literature Reframing feminism: motherhood, surrogacy, and other ongoing struggles Waxways: imagine futures with Scott Reingten Open Access masculinity: who controls gender? Award Ceremony of the 2025 FIL Youth Literary Creators Contest Award Ceremony of the Letters to the Author Contest to Jaime Alfonso Sandoval Big Bang of letters: young people writing stories The art of TikTok narratives: the power of a good story anyone can tell National Meeting of Literary Creators El Punto: forum of readers and literary creators Mar Adentro Debate Echoes of FIL
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FIL Niños
Special events Latin American Chair Julio Cortázar Tribute to Huemanzin Rodríguez Medals and recognition to the talent and creativity of the academics of the University of Guadalajara (StaudeG) Sustainable narratives. Urgent reflections on culture, consumption, and curating in times of environmental collapse FIL in numbers Press Conference Socioeconomic Contribution of TikTok in Mexico: Impact on Culture, the Economy, and MSMEs Los conejitos rosas no reciben cartas de amor TIC in IES Forum "The Architecture of Desire – 65 Years of the Experimental Theater of Jalisco" Mexican Universities for Climate Action Isla Partida Cultural Journalism Forum Literary Activities for Elderly People International Seminar on Art Criticism In conversation with Gael García Bernal: behind the scenes of 'Hilde Krüger and Metamorfosis