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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Latin America Viva
FIL Literature
Latin America Viva
Participants: Enzo Maqueira, Amara Moira, Carlos Wynter Melo, María José Ferrada
Moderator: Santiago Gamboa
Enzo Maqueira
(Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977)
He is the author of the novels Higiene sexual del soltero (2023), Hágase usted mismo (2018), Electrónica (2014), El impostor (2011) y Ruda macho (2010), and from the book of chronicles and short stories Historias de putas (2008). Sexual diversity, drugs, polyamory and a critical look at the uses, vices and customs of the middle sectors of society are some of the topics addressed by a work that achieved international recognition with Electrónica, considered "the novel of a generation". With Hágase usted mismo it was a finalist for the Silverio Cañada Award of the Semana Negra (Thriller Week) of Gijón to the best first crime novel in Spanish, and winner of the Ricardo Rojas Special Prize of the City of Buenos Aires. He is a contributor to the newspaper Clarín, and in the magazines Anfibia, Vice and Viva. His work has been translated into English, French, Italian and Portuguese.
In 2013, the Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba, invited him to participate in the III Casa Tomada. Encounter of Young Artists and Writers of Latin America and the Caribbean In 2015 he was invited by the Ministry of Culture of Peru to participate in the Lima Imaginada Conference, which brought together outstanding young writers from Latin America. He was part of the Latin America Viva program of the FIL Guadalajara in 2019. He achieved recognition with Electrónica, considered "the novel of a generation" by portraying the middle-class youth of the early twenty-first century, strongly linked to the rave culture. His most recent novel is Hágase usted mismo, published by Tusquets Editores, finalist of the Silverio Cañada Award of the Semana Negra de Gijón for the best first crime novel in Spanish and winner of the Ricardo Rojas Special Award of the City of
from Buenos Aires. He is the host of the program Narraciones extraordinarias by Radio Provincia, from the province of Buenos Aires.
Other activities involving the participant:
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Amara Moira
(Brazil, 1985)
Amara Moira is a is a writer, transgender, she earned her PhD in theory and literary criticism with a thesis on Ulysses, by James Joyce. She's the author of the books E se eu fosse puta (translated to Spanish by Mandacaru Editorial in 2022, in Argentina), where she writes about her experiences as a sex worker, and Neca + 20 Poemetos Travessos (O Sexo da Palavra, 2021), in which she brings together her poetic creation about LGBTQIA+ experiences and a small version of her monologue in bajubá, the language of Brazilian transgenders (the monologue will be out next year in an extended edition). In addition, the translation of Continuadísimo, by the Argentine transgender writer Naty Menstrual, is in charge and will be released this year in Brazil.
Other activities involving the participant:
Destinação Brasil
Carlos Wynter Melo
The London Hay Festival included him in a list of the 39 most important writers under 39 years of age in Latin America (this distinction was endorsed by the Secretariat of Culture of Bogotá, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO, for its acronym in English) and a jury made up of writers Héctor Abad Faciolince, Piedad Bonnett and Óscar Collazos.
The Guadalajara Book Fair, on its 25th anniversary, named him one of the Best Kept Literary Secrets in Latin America, along with 24 other authors from the region.
In 2021, the Latino Book Review magazine rated him as one of the six Panamanian and contemporary writers to read.
His novel Las impuras was among the finalists for the Caribbean Writers Association Award and, in 2023, it was translated and edited by Peabirú, Brazil.
He has been awarded by the University of Panama, the Technological University of Panama, the National Institute of Culture, the Goethe Institute of Germany and the Cervantes Institute of Spain.
His work has been translated into English, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, Italian and Tagalog.
Critics agree that it uses parody, doubles, magical realism and other related techniques to reveal gender, racial or identity norms.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Authors Forum, a federation that defends the copyright of written works, and brings together nearly 700 thousand members worldwide.
He is a member of the Society of Editors and Authors of Panama.
He collaborates with the 500 Stories project, which promotes creative writing in Latin American schools.
In addition, he works as an editorial advisor and university professor.
Other activities involving the participant:
Rate for writers
Round table and reading
María José Ferrada
(Temuco, Chile, 1977). Es periodista y escritora. Ha sido galardonada con numerosos reconocimientos literarios, entre ellos el Premio Iberoamericano Cervantes Chico, Premio Iberoamericano SM de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil, Premio Poesía Ciudad de Orihuela, Premio Hispanoamericano de Poesía para Niños, Premio New Horizons de la Feria del Libro Infantil de Bolonia y Premio del Ministerio de las Culturas, Las Artes y El Patrimonio de Chile. Sus libros han sido traducidos a quince idiomas.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Galas
Santiago Gamboa
Santiago Gamboa (Bogotá, 1965) estudió Literatura en la Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá y en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, donde obtuvo el título de licenciado en filología hispánica. Entre 1990 y 1997 vivió en París, y cursó un doctorado sobre literatura cubana en la Universidad de la Sorbona. Su primera novela, Páginas de vuelta (1995), fue considerada por la crítica como el resurgimiento de la narrativa urbana colombiana. Desde entonces, no ha dejado de cosechar éxitos de venta y de crítica gracias a novelas como Perder es cuestión de método (1997), Los impostores (2001), El síndrome de Ulises (2005), Necrópolis (2009), Plegarias nocturnas (2012), Una casa en Bogotá (2014), Volver al oscuro valle (2016), Será larga la noche (Alfaguara, 2019) y Colombian Psycho (Alfaguara, 2022). Ha publicado tres libros de narraciones de viaje: Octubre en Pekín (2000), Océanos de arena (2013) y Ciudades al final de la noche (2017). En 2014 incursionó en el ensayo con La guerra y la paz, una reflexión histórica acerca del conflicto y la reconciliación. Sus libros han sido traducidos a dieciocho idiomas.
Wednesday November 29
18:00 to 18:50
Salón E, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara