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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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From the land of Rulfo and Arreola and standing in the continent of Borges and Quiroga, we continue to greet the short story and the fans of the short genre. Today, and for the last 17 years, the Guadalajara International Book Fair has insisted on betting with determination on the short story genre and organizing a meeting that is a permanent part of its program, something like a sanctuary of a protected literary species; a reserve outside the laws of the market, which promotes a space to close the gap between authors and readers.
We can proudly say that today this space has gone from being a passion of minorities to being one of the most endearing and crowded activities of the Fair.
Coming from different latitudes and literary traditions, 127 authors from 27 countries will have paraded through this space, including the eight participants in this edition. Throughout these years, we have heard from their authors tales that are disgusting, moving, about love, revenge, rage and reconciliation, short stories that have not let us ignore them.
The history of participants who have traveled through these dialogue tables has become a compass to follow the route of the story in different languages and an invitation to delve into the work of each of the authors.
The famous Mexican author Alberto Chimal coordinated this edition of the meeting, lavishly giving us his friendship and his knowledge of the genre. We also thank all the institutions that joined this open space for the enjoyment and promotion of short stories this year. Welcome, storytellers.
Participants: María José Navia, Jorge Volpi
Moderator: Alberto Chimal
María José Navia
(Santiago de Chile, 1982). Es escritora y académica chilena. Magíster en humanidades y pensamiento social por la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU), y doctora en literatura y estudios culturales por la Universidad de Georgetown. Actualmente es profesora en la Facultad de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Es autora de las novelas SANT (Incubarte, 2010) y Kintsugi (Kindberg, 2018; Himpar, 2020; Polilla, 2022; Concreto, 2023) y de las colecciones de cuentos Instrucciones para ser feliz (Sudaquia, 2015), Lugar (Ediciones de la Lumbre, 2017; finalista del Premio Municipal de Literatura) y Una música futura (Kindberg, 2020; Barrett, 2021; Marciana,2023; ganadora del concurso Mejores Obras Literarias que entrega el Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile, y finalista del Premio Municipal de literatura). También ha publicado la novela infantil El mapa secreto de las cosas (Amanuta, 2020; Premio Medalla Colibrí IBBY Chile al mejor libro de ficción infantil) y ha grabado la versión audiolibro de tres de sus obras: Lugar (Leolento), Kintsugi (Storytel) y Una música futura (Scribd).
En el año 2022 resultó finalista del Premio Internacional Ribera del Duero por su libro de cuentos Todo lo que aprendimos de las películas, que fue publicado a comienzos de 2023 por la editorial Páginas de Espuma.
Jorge Volpi
(México, 1968)
He is the author of fifteen novels, among which the following stand out In Spite the Dark Silence (1993), the Twentieth Century Trilogy consisting of In Search of Klingsor (Biblioteca Breve Prize, 1999), The End of Madness (2003) and Season of Ash (2006); La tejedora de sombras (Planet-Casa de América Award, 2011), Dark Forest Dark (2010), Memorial del engaño (2013), Las elegidas (2014) and Una novela criminal (Alfaguara Prize, 2018), from which the Netflix documentary series of the same name was made, and Partes de guerra (2022).
He has also written the essays Imagination and Power (1998), War and Words (2004), Contagious Lies (Mazatlan Award, 2008), Bolivar's Insomnia (Debate Casa de América Award, 2009), Reading the Mind (2011) and Examen de mi padre (2016) and the play Las agujas dementes(2020).
In 2008 he received the José Donoso Award for his body of work and the Medal of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain. He is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
Other activities involving the participant:
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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.
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The Pleasure of Reading Galas
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International Storytellers Conference
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating
Thursday November 30
19:00 to 19:50
Salón 3, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara