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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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The Poetry Room
FIL Literature
The Poetry Room
Participant: Olja Savicevic
Presenter: Vivian Lavín
Olja Savicevic
Invitado de HonorOlja Savičević (Split, 1974) is one of the best Croatian contemporary authors and a representative of the so-called ‘lost generation’. She graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science in Zadar. Her first poetry collection was published when she was 14 years old, and since then, she published twelve works: six poetry collections, a short story collection, two novels and three picture books. Politically and socially engaged, Olja’s work has been included in a number of Croatian anthologies and international selections. Her writing has been translated into 11 languages: German, English, Spanish, Italian, Bulgarian, Dutch, Swedish, Macedonian, Slovenian, Hungarian and French, with excerpts of her prose and poetry translated and published into over 30 langagues world-wide. For her works, Olja received a number of coveted national, regional and international awards. In 2020, her novel Farewell, Cowboy was awarded the French award Prix du premiere for the best debut novel translated in French. Farewell, Cowboy was wonderfully received by readers as well: a great success in the region, the book was adapted into a stage play. Her second novel, Singer in the Night, received the British Pen Award. Her short stories collection To Make a Dog Laugh won the prize for best author under thirty-five awarded jointly by Vijenac. The poetry collection Mamasafari and Other Things was short-listed for the ‘Kiklop Award for Best Collection of 2012’, awarded annually by the Pula Book Fair.
Other activities involving the participant:
Words as an instrument of tolerance and openness
Vivian Lavín
(Santiago de Chile, 1967) Es una periodista de amplia trayectoria en el campo de la cultura. Conduce desde el año 2002, el programa radial Vuelan las Plumas, en Radio Universidad de Chile. Es autora de cinco libros de entrevistas. Su más reciente libro es Pisaremos las calles nuevamente (Cuatro Lunas, 2023) basado en el testimonio de tres expresas políticas de la dictadura chilena. Obtuvo el Premio a la Excelencia Periodística por Pobre el que no cambia de mirada, y el Premio al Periodismo que entrega la Academia Chilena de la Lengua, entre otros.
Es presidenta de la Sociedad de Derechos de las Letras (Sadel).
En 2018 creó la agencia literaria VLP Agency, que representa a autores y editores de Latinoamérica y España.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Galas
Black humor and tragicomedy in literature
Sunday November 26
20:00 to 20:50
Salón de la Poesía, planta alta, Expo Guadalajara