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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Destinação Brasil
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Destinação Brasil
From Rubem Fonseca's crime novel and Nélida Piñón's magical pen to the new generation of Brazilian authors who write about distant borders, Brazil's contemporary landscape has seen the growth of great storytellers, poets and literature lovers. This edition of Destinação Brazil takes us on a tour of the works of nine authors who give voice to this diverse and multifaceted region.
Each of the writers of this exhibition makes an appeal to Latin American readers and leads them to discover that Brazilian literature is alive, and keeps an interesting conversation going with the rest of the continent.
The literary discovery trip is possible in this edition thanks to the sum of efforts of the Guadalajara FIL, the Brazilian Embassy in Mexico, the Guimarães Rosa Institute, the Secretariat of Culture, Economy and Creative Industry of the Government of the State of São Paulo, SP Leituras, Philos, the Brazilian Book Chamber and COPA Airlines.
Participants: Morgana Kretzmann, Luiza Romão, Kátia Bandeira de Mello Gerlach
Moderator: Giovanna Sant Ana
Morgana Kretzmann
(Brazil)
Morgana Kretzmann is a writer and screenwriter. Author of the novel Ao Pó (Patuá), winner of the 2021 São Paulo Prize for Literature São Paulo Literature Prize in the category Best Debut Novel. Her next books, Água Turvo and Safra de Sangue, which will complete the "narratives of the red earth", will be edited by the Companhia das Letras. As a screenwriter, she worked on the series Tarã, for the Disney+ streaming channel, which will debut this year. Directed and scripted the project Autoras em cena, by Itáu Cultural, in audiovisual format. The episodes are available on digital platforms for free. She was born near the border of Argentina, in the interior of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. She lives in the city of São Paulo.
Other activities involving the participant:
São Paulo Prize for Literature
Luiza Romão
(Brazil, 1992)
Luiza Romão is a Brazilian poet, actress and slammer. Her book, Também guardamos pedras aquí was the winner of the Jabuti Award for best book of the year and best poetry book in 2022, it was published in Brazil by Editora Nós; in France, by Nossa Éditions and in Mexico, by Círculo de Poesía.
In her work she investigates the hybridisms between poetry, performance and film, discussing issues such as gender violence and colonialism. She is also the author of Nadine (Editora Quelônio/Brazil; Editora Mandacaru/Argentina) and Sangría (Portuguese/Spanish edition by the doburro label, Brazil).
Kátia Bandeira de Mello Gerlach
Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in the United States. She graduated in law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She joined the faculty of the Unknown University of Brooklyn under the presidency of Enrique Vila-Matas. She was a student of the Disquiet International Program in Lisbon, thanks to the scholarship from the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD). She is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Literary Arts program.
Published in La Cause Littéraire, Colóquio - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Curious Fiction, Words without Borders, São Paulo Review, Jornal Rascunho, Revista InComunidade and Cenas Magazine (Raimundo Carrero Cultural Center). She is a columnist and curator of the magazine Philos –Latin Union Journal of Literature.
Her books published by the publisher Confraria do Vento are: Colisões Bestiais (Particle)res (2015); Jogos (Ben)ditos e Folias (Mal)ditas (2017); Artist's Caderno (2022) and A Patafísica do Quadrado, um romance na rota das galochas (2022). Earlier, she published Forrageiras de Jade (2009) and Forasteiros (2013) by the Projeto Dulcinéia Catadora.
She participated and organized in various anthologies and collections, including Nosotros Editor Oito e Meio (2017) and Perdidas: histórias para crianças que não tem vez, Imã Editorial (2018).
In Portugal, her book Baleias, Bromélias e Outra Naturezas it was published by the Publisher Gato Bravo in 2022, and she has a book of poetic essays printed by the Publishing House Editorial Húmus, Lisbon. She received the Writer Without Borders Award at the Flipoços Literary Festival in 2018. In 2020 she was a guest writer at the IX Portuguese Language Meeting organized by the University of Massachusetts/Boston and the Camões Institute. She is a frequent guest writer at the West Point Academy, Columbia University, and the Camões Institute. She has participated in several international fairs and festivals such as the FIL Guadalajara, LitFestBergen, Folio/Óbidos, New York Poetry Festival, and Lincoln Center.
She has several projects underway (novels and illustrated books).
Other activities involving the participant:
Latin art and literature. Philos magazine
Giovanna Sant Ana
Giovanna Sant'Ana tiene máster universitario en Gestión de la Información y especialización en Gestión de Proyectos, Customer Service y Gestión Cultural. Desde 2008 gestiona políticas públicas de cultura y programas literarios, educativos y socioculturales en el tercer sector. Actualmente es gerente de Programas y Proyectos y representante de los trabajadores en el Consejo de Administración de SP Leituras, organización social asociada a la Secretaría de Cultura, Economía e Industria Creativas del Estado de São Paulo, Brasil, para gestionar la Biblioteca de São Paulo, la Biblioteca Parque Villa-Lobos, la BibliON, el Sistema Estadual de Bibliotecas de São Paulo, y las acciones culturales del Prêmio São Paulo de Literatura.
Other activities involving the participant:
São Paulo Prize for Literature
Thursday November 30
18:00 to 18:50
Salón A, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara