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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
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.
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
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São Paulo Prize for Literature
Participants: Morgana Kretzmann, Antônio Xerxenesky
Moderator: Giovanna Sant Ana
Morgana Kretzmann
(Brazil)
Morgana Kretzmann is a writer and screenwriter. Author of the novel Ao Pó (Patuá), winner of the 2021 São Paulo Prize for Literature São Paulo Literature Prize in the category Best Debut Novel. Her next books, Água Turvo and Safra de Sangue, which will complete the "narratives of the red earth", will be edited by the Companhia das Letras. As a screenwriter, she worked on the series Tarã, for the Disney+ streaming channel, which will debut this year. Directed and scripted the project Autoras em cena, by Itáu Cultural, in audiovisual format. The episodes are available on digital platforms for free. She was born near the border of Argentina, in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. She lives in the city of São Paulo.
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Antônio Xerxenesky
(Brazil, 1984)
He was born in 1984 in Porto Alegre and moved to São Paulo. He is a writer, translator, teacher and editor. He is the author of several novels, including Uma tristeza infinita (2021), winner of the São Paulo Prize for Literature, As Preguntas (2017). He holds a PhD in Literary Theory from the University of São Paulo and he teaches creative writing workshops and literature and philosophy courses, covering topics such as Roberto Bolaño, Thomas Pynchon, Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory. He currently works as a fiction editor at Companhia das Letras, in charge of the Penguin classics label.
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Giovanna Sant Ana
Giovanna Sant'Ana tiene máster universitario en Gestión de la Información y especialización en Gestión de Proyectos, Customer Service y Gestión Cultural. Desde 2008 gestiona políticas públicas de cultura y programas literarios, educativos y socioculturales en el tercer sector. Actualmente es gerente de Programas y Proyectos y representante de los trabajadores en el Consejo de Administración de SP Leituras, organización social asociada a la Secretaría de Cultura, Economía e Industria Creativas del Estado de São Paulo, Brasil, para gestionar la Biblioteca de São Paulo, la Biblioteca Parque Villa-Lobos, la BibliON, el Sistema Estadual de Bibliotecas de São Paulo, y las acciones culturales del Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura.
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Friday December 01
19:00 to 19:50
Salón A, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara