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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Independent Publishers meeting
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Dialogue panels between the various actors of the independent publishing ecosystem, in which they will reflect on the problems, challenges and joint solutions to improve marketing, dissemination, communication and, in general, the independent book sector. Meeting of independent editors
The diversity of themes, styles and vision of the independent editors is very important for FIL Guadalajara, that is why, starting this year in collaboration with the commission of Independent publishers of the CANIEM and the European Union, the first meeting of independent publishers, a meeting to find common ground and share.
The professional delegation of the European Union will also participate in the meeting and will have various tables addressing topics such as: independent publishing, book fairs, How to get books to readers?, public book policies and a workshop on purchase and sale of publishing rights.
The meeting will take place from November 27 to 29 as part of the professonal activities of FIL Guadalajara.
Participants: Hugo Setzer, Genoveva Muñoz Castillo, Carlos Armenta, Gautier Mignot
Hugo Setzer
Industrial Engineer from UNAM and has a Master's Degree in Business Management from the Pan American Institute of Senior Business Management, IPADE. He is, since 1990, general director of Editorial El Manual Moderno, one of the main publishers in the fields of medicine and psychology in Latin America. After many years of participation in the Executive Committee of the International Union of Editors (UIE / IPA), Hugo was vice president between 2017-2018 and president for the period 2019-2020.
He was on several occasions a member of the board of directors of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry, CANIEM and vice president in the periods 2004-2006 and 2010-2013. He received the CANIEM Award for Guild Merit in 2009.
Founding president of the Mexican Center for the Protection and Promotion of Copyright, Collective Management Society, CeMPro from 1998 to 2002.
President of the committee for Latin America and the Caribbean and member of the board of directors of the International Federation of Reprographic Rights Organizations, IFRRO, from 2000 to 2002.
He was a member of the board of directors of the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Editors, STM, from 1998 to 2004.
He currently participates in the advisory board of the Accessible Books Consortium of the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, and in March 2022 he was elected president of the Board of Directors of the National Chamber of the Mexican Publishing Industry (CANIEM) for the 2022 biennium. 2024.
Other activities involving the participant:
Opening
Editorial champions for Social Responsibility and the Sustainable Development Goals
Genoveva Muñoz Castillo
(Mexico City) She has worked in the world of publishing since 2008, working in the areas of design, editing, distribution and content creation. She is a partner and director of La Cifra, an independent Mexican publisher that publishes graphic fiction, children's literature and literature. A fundamental part of her work has been to establish collaborative relationships with other publishers in order to find new ways to address distribution and exhibition problems of independent publishers. By promoting communication between related publishing projects, she has managed to establish distribution agreements and co-publishing projects that make visible the great contributions that small publishers give to the union. She was president of the Committee of Independent Editorials during the period from 2019 to 2021. She is currently the owner of Caniem.
Other activities involving the participant:
Getting books to readers
Carlos Armenta
Editor y librero en Impronta Casa Editora —dedicada a la edición de libros sobre arte, literatura y humanidades—, así como presidente del Comité de Editores Independientes de la CANIEM.
Other activities involving the participant:
Independent publishing, where are we?
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, Unión europea, Comité de Editoriales Independientes (CEI) de la CANIEM
Monday November 27
13:00 to 13:15
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