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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Guest of Honor Pavilion
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Mexico: memory of hospitality
Spain, Guest of Honor
Guest of Honor Pavilion
Journeys. Mexico: memory of hospitality
The experience of exile is the result of a heartbreaking and difficult situation. But then many other possibilities arise: rebuilding one's life, dialogue of identities, opening up new horizons. From a cultural perspective, with nostalgia, the bright consequences of this crossroads is also worth considering. Mexico and Spain, history of a hospitality.
Participants: Luis García Montero, Jordi Gracia
Luis García Montero
Invitado de Honor(Granada, 1958) has been the director of the Instituto Cervantes since 2018. He is a professor of Spanish Literature at the University of Granada.
The awards he has received include: Premio Adonáis (1982), Premio Nacional de Literatura (1994), Premio Nacional de la Crítica (2003), Premio del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid (2009), Premio Poetas del Mundo Latino (2010, México), Premio Paralelo 0 (2018, Ecuador), Golden Antelope International Poetry Prize (2021, China) and Premio Montale Fuori di Casa (2023, Italy).
His poetry books include Y ahora ya eres dueño del Puente de Brooklyn (1980), El jardín extranjero (1983), Habitaciones separadas (1980), Completamente viernes (1998), La intimidad de la serpiente (2003), Vista cansada (2008), A puerta cerrada (2017), No puedes ser así. Breve historia del mundo (2021), Un año y tres meses (2022) and Almudena (2024).
In non-fiction, he has published ¿Por qué no es útil la literatura? (1993, in collaboration with Antonio Muñoz Molina), Un lector llamado Federico García Lorca (2016), Las palabras rotas (2019) and La realidad de una esperanza. Galdós, la memoria y la poesía (2020), and critical editions of García Lorca (1992 y 2017), Alberti (1988), Carlos Barral (1997) and Luis Rosales (2005).
He is the author of the novels Impares, fila 13 (written with Felipe Benítez Reyes); Mañana no será lo que Dios quiera (2009), a novelized biography of Ángel González; No me cuentes tu vida (2012) and Someone speaks your name (2014).
He has studied the work of authors such as Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Rosalía de Castro, Rafael Alberti, Federico García Lorca, Luis Rosales, Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, Francisco Ayala and José Emilio Pacheco. He also has honorary degrees from the universities of San Agustín and Ricardo Palma (Peru), Pontificia Católica Universidad de Valparaíso (Chile) and Córdoba (Argentina), and is an honorary professor at the University of Mar del Plata (Argentina).
He recently received the Premio Internacional Carlos Fuentes a la Creación Literaria (2024) in the Spanish Language, awarded by the Secretariat of Culture and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
Other activities involving the participant:
Writing goodbye
"Cry to Rome", a poem by Federico García Lorca. Published in native languages
Spanish in the world
Jordi Gracia
Invitado de Honor(Barcelona, 1965)
He is an essayist, professor of Spanish Literature at the Universidad de Barcelona, deputy to the director of El País and co-director of TintaLibre. He has written several books on the intellectual and literary history of Spain in the 20th century, a biography of Cervantes titled Miguel de Cervantes.La conquista de la ironía (2016), and one of José Ortega y Gasset in the collection of biographies “Españoles eminentes”. In 2004, he received the Premio Anagrama de Ensayo for La resistencia silenciosa. Fascismo y cultura en España, where he addressed, among other topics, how the Spanish exile is perceived from within. With A la intemperie. Exilio y cultura en España (2010), he reconstructs, through letters, books, and documents dating from 1939, the behaviors and emotions of Spanish exiles who adapted to their new environments.
He has also dedicated works to Dionisio Ridruejo, including La vida rescatada de Dionisio Ridruejo. Other notable publications include Javier Pradera o el poder de la izquierda.Medio siglo de cultura democrática, El intelectual melancólico. Un panfleto and Contra la izquierda. Para seguir siendo de izquierdas en el siglo XXI.
Other activities involving the participant:
Crossroads. Journalism and literature
Tuesday December 03
10:00 to 10:50
Pabellón de España, Expo Guadalajara