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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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
European Union, Guest of Honor
Literary Program
Authors and literature in the face of crises
Participants: Arnon Grunberg, András Forgách, Elena Alexieva, Morten Pape
Moderator: Brenda Navarro
Arnon Grunberg
Invitado de HonorArnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (born 22 February 1971) is a Dutch writer of novels, essays, and columns. He grew up in Amsterdam in a Jewish emigrant family and was kicked out of high school at age seventeen. After a very short acting career, he started his own publishing company in 1990 called Kasimir and wrote several plays. In 1994, when he was twenty-three years old, he debuted with his first novel Blue Mondays for which he received several Dutch prices, including the Anton Wachter Prize price and De Gouden Ezelsoor, a prize for best selling literary debut. After this he wrote sixteen novels, including Silent Extras (1997), Phantom Phantom Pain (2000), Tirza (2006) and The Jewish Messiah (2008).
In addition to his novels, he has written many essays, columns, poetry, scenarios and plays. His essays have appeared in many national and international magazines such as The New York Times, Le Monde, Liberération, The Times, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Courrier International, Revista Contexto and Süddeutsche Zeitung. In 2022 he received the PC Hooftprijs, a Dutch literary lifetime achievement award and the Johannes Vermeer prize, the Dutch State Prize for the Arts.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Galas
András Forgách
Invitado de HonorBorn 1952, Budapest
Studied history and philosophy at the ELTE University, between 1970-1976, wrote his thesis about James Joyce and the linguistic turn of philosophy.
Author, playwright, essayist, illustrator, scriptwriter. Published several books and four novels in Hungary. (One) Who Isn't (1999), Zehuze (2007), I was Twelve Women (2013), No Live Files Remain/ The Acts of my Mother (2015), published in 17 languages, about the secret service past of his parents.
Besides these novels, he published three essay books about literature, theatre, and film.
His first play The Player, after Dostoyevski's novel was presented at the Katona József Theater (Budapest), in 1985.
He wrote many adaptations of classical and newer authors (Flaubert, Garcia Marquez, Hamsun, Danilo Kis), and several original plays, among them Vitellius and The Key, which won prizes and were also translated into several languages. In the last years, he directed his own play, The Boy in Oradea/Nagyvárad, (2013).
He translated the prose of Heinrich von Kleist, Marguerite Duras, Proust, the plays of Beaumarchais, Genet, Wedekind, Ödön von Horvath, Marlowe, Pinter, and many others.
Elena Alexieva
Invitado de HonorElena Alexieva writes short stories, novels and plays. Some of her short story collections are Readers’ Group 31, Who, The Breaking of Samsara, while her novels include Night, Devil and Death, The Nobel Laureate, and others. As a playwright, she has received the Askeer and Ikar national awards for new Bulgarian drama. Her plays have been collected in two volumes, Angel Fire and Victims of Love. She is also winner of the Helikon Prize for modern Bulgarian fiction, The Quill Prize and others, and her novel Saint Wolf was Novel of the Year for 2019. Her latest book is yet another novel, Vulcan (2023).
Her books have been translated in French, Spanish, Russian, Macedonian and Arabic.
Elena lives in Sofia and works as a freelance interpreter. She is also the Bulgarian translator of William Faulkner’s The Wishing Tree and The Wild Palms.
Other activities involving the participant:
Stories of exclusion. Fight with words
Translation: building universal literature
Morten Pape
Invitado de Honor(1986) creció en Amager, en la zona residencial socialmente desfavorecida de Urbanplanen. Tiene una licenciatura en ciencias cinematográficas y también es guionista de la escuela de cine alternativa Super16. En 2015, debutó en la novela con The Plan y ganó el premio Debutante de BogForum, siguió con la novela Guds beste børn (Hermanos de sangre) en 2018, que ganó el Premio de Novela DR, y más recientemente I ruiner (en Ruinas) en 2021, que completa su extensa trilogía Amager. En ruinas ganó el Premio de Literatura Politiken 2021.
Morten también ha escrito guiones para películas y series de televisión danesas.
En 2019 recibió la beca de trabajo de tres años del Statens Kunstfond.
Brenda Navarro
Ha sido coordinadora de programas literarios, redactora, guionista y editora. Casas vacías, su primera novela, fue premiada con el Premio Tigre Juan y publicada en ocho idiomas.
Su segunda novela, Ceniza en la boca, se publicó en 2022. Obtuvo el Premio Cálamo a mejor libro del año 2022; el Premio al mejor libro del año, por la Asociación de Librerías de Madrid, y el Premio Todos tus Libros otorgado por la Confederación de Libreros Independientes en España. Además, fue uno de los libros finalistas al Premio de la Bienal Vargas Llosa 2023. Está siendo traducida a ocho idiomas. Fue parte del International Writing Program de la Universidad de Iowa, y actualmente escribe su tercera novela.
Other activities involving the participant:
Latin America Viva
Galician Literature
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Saturday December 02
18:00 to 19:20
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara