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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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: Fernando Navarro, Julia Rios, Sofía Morfín Jean
Moderator: Alberto Chimal
Fernando Navarro
(Spain, 1980)
Writer and screenwriter born in Granada. As a film screenwriter, he has collaborated with filmmakers such as Álex de la Iglesia, Rodrigo Cortés, Paco Plaza, Jonás Trueba and Jaume Balagueró. He has been nominated twice for the Goya Awards, in the categories of Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his filmography stand out Toro (2016), Veronica (2018) and A Perfect Enemy (2020). His most recent script to date is Below Zero (2021), a thriller for Netflix that reached the number-one position in more than 55 countries.
He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and has taught Creative Writing workshops at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College, both in New York. He has collaborated with media such as Radio 3, Cadena SER, MondoSonoro or Letras Libres. His collection of short stories Malaventura (Impedimenta) it is his first book.
Other activities involving the participant:
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Julia Rios
(United States od America, 1978)
I was born in 1978 in Los Angeles, California. My father came to the USA from Yucatán when he was a teenager, and eventually became a psychologist. He loved reading and discussing everything from folktales and literature to science, and philosophy. My mother is also a voracious reader, so it’s perhaps not surprising that I have always been drawn to storytelling.
I began editing short fiction for the online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Strange Horizons in 2012, and I have been doing that ever since for both magazines and anthologies. I won the Hugo Award in 2017 and 2018 for my work as Reprint and Poetry Editor at Uncanny Magazine, and I was also a Hugo Award Finalist for other editing work in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2019. My current project is editing and publishing uplifting science fiction and fantasy stories, poems, and art in Worlds of Possibility.
I also write my own stories and poems and essays. My stories have been published in several places including Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (The Ohio State University Press, 2021, Alex Hernandez, Steve Goodwin, and Sara Rafael García, editors) and Shadow Atlas (Hex Publishers, 2021, Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Josh Viola, editors). “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” (A Larger Reality, 2018, Libia Brenda, editor) was reprinted in Latin American Literature Today.
Sofía Morfín Jean
(México)
I am Sofía Morfin Jean, I was born in 1992 and I am "chilanga" by birth and by choice. I firmly believe that there is no better place to spend the years laughing and crying than in chaotic Mexico City. My first collection of short stories Big Bang Bermellón won the Gilberto Owen National Literature Award 2023 and will be published later this year by Pollo Blanco Publishing House (purchase your copy as soon as possible). I have also published short stories and opinion texts inTierra Adentro, C de Cultura and Mi Valedor. In 2021, I graduated from the diploma of creative writing by the Sogem Writers School, and I currently work as a film and television screenwriter. What I like most in life is literature. After money. And after buying books that I don't have enough time to read.
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
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating
Friday December 01
19:00 to 19:50
Salón 3, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara