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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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A tool to improve working conditions. The challenges in its development and implementation: The case of the Argentine Union of Writers.
Participants: Marcelo Guerrieri, Carlos Wynter Melo
Moderator: Andrés Ossa
Marcelo Guerrieri
Marcelo Guerrieri, Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, 1973. Author of fiction, teacher and anthropologist. He published the novels Con esta luna (Tusquets), winner of the Celsius Prize at the XXXV Semana Negra in Gijón for the best fantasy, horror or science fiction novel in the Spanish language; Pharmacy (Factotum), finalist for the Página/12 New Novel Award; the story book Trees with a Red Trunk (Muerde Muertos), The Serial Cyclist (Eloísa Cartonera), winner of the Nueva Narrativa Sudaca Border award, and the blognovela Detective Buenos Aires. He obtained the Trainers and Creation scholarships from the National Fund for the Arts. He is an Anthropologist from the University of Buenos Aires. Professor of the Bachelor of Arts in Writing at the National University of the Arts. He is the coordinator of narrative workshops in cultural centers in the City of Buenos Aires, a task he also carried out in Spain and Sweden. He is president of the Argentine Union of Writers, a civil association in defense of the rights of writers as workers.
Other activities involving the participant:
Empower Illustrators
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:
Latin America Viva
Round table and reading
Andrés Ossa
Autor, editor y especialista en marketing y negocios digitales, fue designado por la presidencia del Consejo del Cerlalc y la dirección general de la Unesco como director del Centro para el bienio 2020 - 2021 y 2022 – 2023.
Cuenta con estudios en sociología, egresado de la Universidad Interamericana de Puerto Rico, posee una maestría en Marketing, publicidad y Comunicaciones en la Universidad Católica de Ávila, un MBA en Administración y negocios de la Universidad Santo Tomas en Chile y un diplomado en Finanzas en la Universidad Sergio Arboleda en Colombia.
Tiene una amplia experiencia en el sector editorial. Ha trabajado en Alfaguara y Grupo Planeta. En esta última se complementó como director de marketing por más de ocho años y luego se convirtió en el gerente de innovación y negocios digitales para el área Andina.
Además, ha participado como coautor de varios proyectos editoriales, de los cuales destacan títulos como: Todos somos oro, Todos somos genios 1 y 2, El difícil oficio de perdonar, Episodios Extraordinarios del ingenio humano, Rafa y sus espantos, La leyenda del Dorado , Orquídeas del Perdón y Dios hizo el Color.
Other activities involving the participant:
Public policies and Independent publishing
El valor de la creatividad. Lanzamiento de la Guía de valoración de intangibles para industrias creativas.
Lanzamiento de “Trama”
Organiza: IAF, Unión de Escritores y Escritoras de Argentina y Sociedad de Editores y Autores de Panamá
Wednesday November 29
12:00 to 12:50
Foro de Industria, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara