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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Literary Program
The value of poetry in everyday life
Participants: Sylva Fischerová, Peter Svetina, Nikos Chryssos
Moderator: Rocío Cerón
Sylva Fischerová
Invitado de HonorSylva Fischerová (1963, Prague) is a Czech poet, writer and classical philologist. She was born in Prague, but she lived in Olomouc until the age of eighteen. Her debut publication The Tremor of Racehorses / Chvění závodních koní (Bloodaxe Books, 1990) was released in 1986. She is the author of twelve poetry collections, and also writes short stories, novels, children’s stories and academic papers. Her poems have been translated into many languages, three books having been published in the UK and the USA, with her works of prose being published in various languages including English, German, Dutch, Portuguese and Polish. Her work has also been incorporated into two albums by the singer Monika Načeva. In 2018 Fischerová became the first Poet Laureate of Prague, the city where she lives and lectures on ancient Greek literature, theology and philosophy at Charles University. Her most recent published works include a love story set in 1980s Prague entitled Elza and the Toadstool / Elza a muchomůrka (2022) and the poetry collection A Different Life. Wittgenstein / Jiný život. Wittgenstein (2023).
Other activities involving the participant:
Translation: building universal literature
Peter Svetina
Invitado de HonorPeter Svetina was born in 1970 in Ljubljana. In 1995 he graduated in Slovenian Studies and defended his PhD thesis on Old Slovenian Poetry in 2001 (both at Faculty for Arts, University Ljubljana, Slovenia). He is an associate professor for Slavic literature at the Institute for Slavic languages, Alpen-Adria University, Klagenfurt, Austria. He writes for children, young adults and adults, but his work often crosses the borders between different target audiences and can be read as crossover literature. His literary debut was a picture book called The Walrus who Didn’t Want to Cut his Nails (1999), which soon served as the basis for a puppet play, a path later followed by many of his works (e.g. Mr. Constantine’s Hat). His books for children and youth have been translated into English, German, Spanish, Korean, Polish, Latvian, Estonian, and Lithuanian. Svetina’s works often play with occurrences and images from his everyday life. They reflect not only his hometown of Ljubljana and the destinations of his travels, but also his scholarly interests – Svetina’s scientific research is focused on old Slovenian poetry, children’s and youth literature (especially its socially and politically directed transformation after World War II), and detective novels. He translates poetry and children’s literature from English, German, Croatian, and Czech and works as an editor for poetry collections and literature textbooks for primary school. His books have received some of the most prestigious national and international awards and are immensely popular among literary critics as well as young readers.
Other activities involving the participant:
Translation: building universal literature
Nikos Chryssos
Invitado de HonorBorn in 1972 in Athens, Nikos Chryssos (Νίκος Χρυσός) studied at the Department of Biology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and at the Department of Film Direction at the School of Cinematography ‘Lykourgos Stavrakos’. He is the owner of a secondhand and rare books’ store in Athens. He wrote the novels The Secret of the Last Page (Το μυστικό της τελευταίας σελίδας, Kastaniotis Editions 2009) and New Day (Καινούργια μέρα, Kastaniotis Editions 2018). In 2014 he edited the annotated revised edition of the book Unforgettable Times (Αξέχαστοι καιροί) by Lefteris Alexiou as well as the collected volume Stories of Books (Ιστορίες βιβλίων), both published by Kastaniotis Editions. He is a member of Hellenic Authors Society. Since September 2018 he has been the 1st Vice-President of the Greek Section of the ‘International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis’ (ISFNK). In 2019, for his novel New Day, he received the EU Prize for Literature, the Greek Literary Phrase Award of the Year of Literature.gr magazine and the Prose Award of Klepsydra magazine. In 2020, he received the “National Book Award for a work that promotes social awareness”. His novel New Day has been translated in Albanian and Croatian and expected to be released in Serbia and Armenia until the end of the year. His short stories have been published in print and online magazines and have been included in collective volumes.
Rocío Cerón
(México, 1972)
Es poeta y artista, reside en la Ciudad de México. Su obra investiga las formas de construcción de la memoria, sus vacilaciones, la suspensión de sentidos (para crear otros sentidos) y el desplazamiento como territorios de choque para crear piezas transmediales. Ha lanzado el álbum de poesía sonora Sonic Bubbles (2020) y publicado los libros de poesía Simultáneo sucesivo (2022), Divisible corpóreo (2022), Spectio (2019), Materia oscura (2018), Borealis (2016), Nudo vortex (2015), Diorama (2012) y Basalto (2022), entre otros. Diorama fue traducido por Anna Rosenwong, y ganó el Best Translated Book Award 2015, otorgado por la Universidad de Rochester (Estados Unidos). También ha sido galardonada con el Premio Nacional de Literatura Gilberto Owen 2000 (México) y el Premio See America Travel Award 2005 (Estados Unidos). Sus poemas se han traducido al inglés y a diversos idiomas europeos. Piezas suyas han sido expuestas en escenarios internacionales. En 2021 fue una de las 25 artistas seleccionadas para la Bienal de Fotografía del Centro de la Imagen en México. En 2022 recibió las Residencias Córdoba-Ciudad de las Ideas de la Fundación Artdecor y el Ayuntamiento de Córdoba (España) y del Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Desarrollo de las Artes (Monterrey, México) para desarrollar proyectos de poesía sonora y performática para intervención en espacios públicos. Desde 2010 forma parte del Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte de México (SNCA). Sigue su proceso creativo en www.instagram.com/laobservante/
Statement creativo
Mis piezas parten desde la apertura de la cognición corporeizada como forma receptiva de conexión. Discurro entre el lenguaje, el sonido del mundo (los oídos son los nuevos puertos de embarque poético).
Los performances que realizo, donde voz y experimentación sonora son instrumentos del lenguaje, intentan cortar el ruiderío sordo contemporáneo, susurran al oído un flujo sonoro que lleva al espacio secreto de la conciencia, de la cueva primigenia, del canto sacrificial: voz que alumbra y cuestiona, voz que, como Scheherezade, salva la cabeza y nos reencuentra con lo profundo humano.
Redes
Web page: www.rocioceron.com
FB: www.facebook.com/DioramaRocioCeron
Tw: @ARocioCeronZ
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/laobservante/
Para conocer sobre mis procesos y obra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNFUYMoyfbc&feature=youtu.be
Other activities involving the participant:
Not a Day Without Poetry
Intelligent emotions: the neuroscientific perspective
Saturday December 02
17:00 to 17:50
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara