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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating
FIL Literature
Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating
Unai Elorriaga is a writer, translator, teacher and editor in Basque. The recognition of his work began in 2002 in Spain, with the publication of SPrako tranbia. Since that year, the work of this author has invited readers to circulate between humor, amazement, comicality and the value of good company through a series of short stories contained in novels.
Elorriaga is accompanied by Alberto Chimal, a multifaceted narrator, a great exponent of fantastic literature and with an extensive career as a writer of short stories on paper, and in digital media.
Both authors move between the short story and the novel, they share a love for the short genre and their works make up an extraordinary display of imagination and an invitation to appreciate, either through short stories, or long novels, the art of storytelling.
Participants: Unai Elorriaga, Alberto Chimal
Unai Elorriaga
(Spain, 1973). With a degree in philosophy and literature, he has worked as a translator, teacher and editor for a publishing house. With his first work, SPrako tranbia, won the National Narrative Award in 2002. In turn, his two most recent books have been worthy of the Premio de la Crítica Española: Iazko hezurrak, 2014 (unpublished in Spanish, despite having become, again, a finalist for the National Narrative Award) and Iturria, 2019 (which now appears in Galaxia Gutenberg with the title in Spanish of Nosotros no ahorcamos a nadie). In addition to these, he has three other titles: Van't Hoffen ilea (winner of the Igartza scholarship), Plants don't drink coffee (winner of the NEA International Literary Award, granted by the United States government) and Londres kartoizkoa da. He has published several children's books and a play in Argentina (Doministiku egin dute arrainek). On the other hand, he has collaborated in the press with numerous articles and has been a lecturer at several universities (Oxford, Georgetown, Dublin, Lyon ...). His works can be read in several European languages (English, German, Italian, Serbian, Russian, Estonian, etc.).
In 2023 he received the Silver Quill Award from the Bilbao Book Fair.
Other activities involving the participant:
Black humor and tragicomedy in literature
Alberto Chimal
(Toluca, México, 1970) es escritor y profesor de escritura creativa. Entre otros reconocimientos, en 2002 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Cuento y en 2014 el Premio de Narrativa Colima, otorgados por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; en 2013 su novela La torre y el jardín fue finalista del Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos; en 2019 su libro para niños La Distante recibió el premio internacional de la Fundación Cuatrogatos, y en 2021 su novela juvenil La noche en la zona M ganó el premio internacional del Banco del Libro. Otras de sus obras son las novelas Los esclavos (2009) y La visitante (2022); una veintena de libros de cuentos, de los que el más reciente es La saga del Viajero del Tiempo (2021); los guiones de las películas 7:19 (2016), dirigida por Jorge Michel Grau, y Confesiones (2022), dirigida por Carlos Carrera; y Funeral, una historia ilustrada por Rulo Valdés que forma parte de la novela gráfica Batman: El Mundo (2021), publicada por DC Comics. Textos suyos se han traducido a una docena de idiomas y han aparecido en antologías internacionales.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Galas
International Storytellers Conference
International Storytellers Conference
International Storytellers Conference
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Saturday December 02
17:30 to 18:20
Salón B, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara