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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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
Books and letters to promote dialogue
Participants: Pascal Quignard, Jurga Vilė, Nikos Bakounakis, Jean Portante
Moderator: Sylvia Georgina Estrada
Pascal Quignard
Invitado de HonorPascal Quignard was born in Verneuil-sur-Avre, Eure, in 1948 and lives in Paris. He is considered one of the greatest contemporary French writers. He is the author of more than 70 books, including the novels Le salon du Wurtemberg (1986), Tous les matins du monde (1991, adapted to the cinema by Alain Courneau), Terrasse à Rome (2000, Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française), Villa Amalia (2006, Grand prix Jean Giono), Les Ombres errantes (2002, Prix Goncourt), Les solidarités mystérieuses (2011), Les larmes (2016) and L'amour la mer (2022). He has also written numerous essays in which fiction is mixed with reflection, such as the Petits traités, and the volumes of Dernier royaume. For his entire works, Pascal Quignard was awarded in 2019 the Marguerite Yourcenar Prize and in 2023 the Prix de la Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Premio Formentor.
For his contribution to the influence of arts and letters in France and around the world, Pascal Quignard has received the highest French honours: in 1995 he was made « chevalier » (« knight »), puis en 2012 « officier » (« officer) of the Legion of Honor, and in 2016 « commandeur » (« commander ») of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Other activities involving the participant:
Master Conference
Jurga Vilė
Invitado de HonorJurga Vilė was born in 1977 in Vilnius, Lithuania. She earned a bachelor’s degree in French philology at the University of Vilnius and studied film science and audiovisual media at the University of Sorbonne III in Paris. Vilė worked as a script supervisor for various film productions, as coordinator and responsible for translations at film festivals and as a freelance journalist for cultural magazines. She has been working as a translator for more than twenty years.
In 2017 Jurga Vilė wrote her first graphic novel Sibiro Haiku (tr: Siberian Haiku, published by Aukso žuvys, illustrated by Lina Itagaki), which won important awards and was translated into more than ten languages. In 2019 her second book Švelnumo fabrikėlis (tr: In the Velvet Forest, published by: You&Oil, illustrated by Lina Zigmantė) was published. In 2021 two illustration albums from a new series A drop in the sea saw the day: Chameleono sapnai (tr: Dreams of a Chameleon, published by Tikra knyga, illustrated by Lina Sasnauskaitė) and Pulpas ir jo žalia koja (tr: Pulpo and its green leg, published by Tikra knyga, illustrated by Akvilė Magicdust). In 2022 her newest book, a cinematographic piece, was published: Nukritę iš Mėnulio. Sapnas apie Oskarą Milašių ir kitus paukščius (tr: Fallen from the Moon. A Dream about Oscar Milosz and Other Birds, published by Aukso žuvys, illustrated by Ula Rugevičiutė Rugytė), also an audio book “The Black Hand” (audioteka.lt). Today Jurga Vilė continues writing and working on various educational projects.
Nikos Bakounakis
Invitado de HonorNikos is a Professor of the Practice of Journalism and Storytelling Techniques
in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University, where
he has taught since 2003. He is a graduate of the Department of Law of the University of
Athens and an élève diplômé of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris. He holds a PhD in History and Civilizations from EHESS. In 1997, he created the “Books” supplement of the newspaper Vima tis Kyriakis, the first literary supplement in the Greek Press, which remained in circulation until 2018. He collaborates with the newspaper lifo, for which he writes and presents the podcast “Books and Authors”. He is an Officier de l’ Ordre des Palmes Académiques of the French Republic. He is the author of numerous books, among which A moment of Europe in 19th-century Greece: The words, the image and the legend of Andreas Rigopoulos that won the Academy of Athens Award in 2008, and Journalist or reporter: Narrative in Greek newspapers of the 19th & 20th century (in Greek) that won both the National Award for Testimony-Biography-Chronicle Travel Literature and the Academy of Athens Award in 2016.
Jean Portante
Invitado de HonorJean Portante was born in 1950 in Differdange (Luxembourg), of Italian parents. He lives in Paris. His work, spanning some forty books - poetry, novels, essays and plays - is widely translated and has been published in 25 countries. In France, he is a member of the Académie Mallarmé. In Luxembourg, he is a member of the Institut Grand-ducal. In 2003, Jean Portante was awarded the Prix Mallarmé in France for his book L'étrange langue. Ten years earlier, his novel Mrs Haroy ou la mémoire de la baleine had won the Prix Servais for best book of the year in Luxembourg. He has received the prize a second time in 2016, for his novel L'architecture des temps instables. In 2011, he was awarded the Prix national Batty Weber in Luxembourg for his body of work. He has won many other literary prizes in Luxembourg, France and Italy such as the Concours littéraire national in Luxembourg in 1986, 1990 and 1992, the Prix Tony Bourg in 1993, Prix de poésie Louis Montalte de la Société des Gens de Lettres (Paris) in 2003, Prix International de littérature francophone Benjamin Fondane in 2012, the Prix Pétrarque (Cénacle européen francophone) in 2014, the Printemps Poétique transfrontalier in 2017, as well as the Premio di Poesia « Città di Pescara – Sinestectica » in 2019. For more than thirty years Jean Portante has also been active as a translator, focusing especially, but not exclusively, on Spanish- and Italian-speaking poets.
Recent publications :
Le pain n’est pas encore pétri, Éditions caractères, France, 2023.
Tout battement est secret / Poésie de Cuba 1959-2022, translated by Jean Portante, Éditions caractères, France, 2023.
Une dernière fois, la Méditerranée. Roman, Éditions Phi, Luxembourg, 2022.
Œuvres poétiques. Tome 1 : Le travail de l’origine (1986-2004), La Rumeur libre, France, 2022.
Jadis je disait. Poésie, Éditions Phi, Luxembourg, 2021.
Wednesday November 29
18:00 to 19:20
Salón 1, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara