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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.
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
Caravans, diaspora and migration from literature
Participants: Kristian Novak, María Dueñas, Cristina Sandu, Kallia Papadaki
Moderator: Mario Martz
Kristian Novak
Invitado de HonorKristian Novak (Baden-Baden, 1979) graduated in Croatian and German Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb in 2005 and earned his PhD from Postgraduate Linguistics Studies in 2011. He holds a lectureship with the Department of Croatian Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy in Rijeka and teaches at the Department of German Studies in Zagreb. Novak’s chief areas of research include historical sociolinguistics, multilingualism (Croatian–German language and culture contacts) and national identity.
Kristian Novak was standard member of Croatian karate national team from 1996 to 2009, winning a range of individual and team awards at national and global karate championships.
His highly acclaimed second novel Črna mati zemla (2013) was shortlisted for the Kiklop Award in 2013 and named the best fictional prose of the year by Jutarnji list. The novel won the 2014 T-portal Prize for best novel in 2013. His novel Gypsy, But the Most Beautiful (2016) was awarded with Fran Galović Award, Ksaver Šandor Gjalski Award and T-portal prize.
María Dueñas
Invitado de HonorMaria Dueñas is a Spanish fiction writer, born in 1964. She is the author of five novels: El tiempo entre costuras (2009), Misión Olvido (20012), La Templanza (2015), Las hijas del Capitán (2018), and Sira (2021). Her books have been translated into more than thirty languages, and adapted into television series. Formerly a university professor, she holds an MA in Spanish and a PhD in English Studies. She currently splits her days between Madrid and the Mediterranean.
Cristina Sandu
Invitado de HonorCristina Sandu is a Finnish novelist and translator. Her debut novel Valas nimeltä Goliat [The Whale Called Goliath] (2017) was nominated for the Finlandia Prize. Her following novel Vesileikit (2019) won the Toisinkoinen Literary Prize for the best second book in Finland. It was translated by the author into English and published in Britain two years later as The Union of Synchronized Swimmers, after which it was shortlisted for The Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize in 2022. Her third novel Tanskalainen retkikunta [The Danish Expedition] will be published in 2024; it is based on the real story of a failed Danish colony in Nicaragua. Her work has been translated into English, Dutch, French, Catalan, Spanish, and Romanian.
Kallia Papadaki
Invitado de HonorKallia Papadaki was born in Didymoteicho in 1978 and grew up in Thessaloniki. She studied economics in Bard College and Brandeis University, USA and directing in the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos.
Her novel Δενδρίτες (Dendrites, Polis Editions) received a Centre National du Livre (CNL) development grant and was awarded the Young Author Award from the Greek literary journal Clepsydra in 2016, and the European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL) in 2017. It has so far been translated into 10 languages. Her short story collection Ο ήχος του ακάλυπτου (The Back lot sound, Polis Editions), was awarded the prize for best new author from the Diavazo literary magazine in 2010. In 2011, her short story Άγης και Μαίρη (Agis and Mary) represented Greece as part of Scritture Giovanni in the Berlin, Madova, and Hay literary festivals.
She is a professional author, screenwriter and script consultant and works as a commissioning editor in film and television. Her first feature script for Penny Panayotopoulou’s Greco-German coproduced film September won the International Balkan Fund Script Development Award in 2010, received a Nipkow scholarship in Berlin. The film premiered at the official competition of the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Her second feature script Wishbone is a Greek-French-German-Cyrpiot coproduction currently in post-production. Her theatrical play Roots of Cotton was commissioned by the Athens Epidaurus festival and performed in the little theatre at the ancient city of Epidaurus in summer of 2022. Her short film L’ acqua che passa, financed by the Greek film Centre, will premiere at the national competition of 46th Drama International Short Film Festival.
She teaches screenwriting in the Hellenic Cinema and Television School Stavrakos and creative writing in the post-graduate department of the Metropolitan College in Athens.
Mario Martz
Nicaragua, 1988. Estudió una maestría en Escritura Creativa en la Universidad de Texas, en El Paso. Es autor de Viaje al reino de los tristes (2010), y de Los jóvenes no pueden volver a casa (2017), el cual fue elegido por la BBC Mundo como una referencia literaria para comprender la Centroamérica de hoy. Asimismo, la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara lo incluyó ese año en sus programas literarios Latinoamérica Viva y Nombrar a Centroamérica como parte de los autores más relevantes de la región. Textos suyos han sido traducidos al inglés, francés e italiano, y ha publicado poesía, entrevistas, relatos y piezas de no ficción en distintos periódicos y revistas, entre las que destacan Río Grande Review, Eñe, The New York Times, The Offing Magazine,The Common Magazine, entre otras.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Poetry Room
Tuesday November 28
19:30 to 20:50
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara