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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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On literature in other formats. A crossroads. Ethics and literature Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
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On literature in other formats. A crossroads. Ethics and literature Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
In this live episode of Punzada Sonoras (podcast by Radio Primavera Sound), philosophers Inés García and Paula Ducay will talk to writer Pau Luque about the crossroads between literature and moral philosophy. What do the two disciplines have to say to each other? How are they related? Does literature have political potential, or is it able to catalyze philosophical reflection? Can it be associated with moral philosophy to have an impact on public life? They will address these questions through Luque's work, especially his books Las cosas como son y otras fantasías, Ñu and Hipocondría Moral. They will also consider what great thinkers like Plato, María Zambrano, Martha Nussbaum and Iris Murdoch have said about this intricate crossroads.
Participants: Inés García Hernáez, Paula Ducay, Pau Luque
Inés García Hernáez
Invitado de HonorShe graduated in Philosophy from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and holds a Master’s in Applied Ethics and another Master’s in Cultural Management and Social Innovation, both from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). She co-founded the cultural project "Punzadas" together with Paula Ducay, where they run the podcast "Punzadas sonoras" and organize various cultural activities. She is interested in researching topics such as spatial justice and rurality.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. A two-way journey. Philosophy. Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Paula Ducay
Invitado de HonorGraduated in Philosophy and holds a Master's in Publishing from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM). She co-founded the cultural project “Punzadas” alongside Inés García, where they direct the podcast “Punzadas sonoras” and organize various cultural activities. Since childhood, she has cultivated a passion and interest in the world of books and contributes professionally to its various branches as a writer, editor, and translator. In February 2024, she published her first novel, La ternura.
Other activities involving the participant:
On literature in other formats. A two-way journey. Philosophy. Punzadas Sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Onliterature in other formats. Love and other paths . Punzadas sonoras (Podcast. Live episode)
Pau Luque
Invitado de HonorBorn in Barcelona in 1982, he has lived in Mexico City since 2014. He trained as a legal philosopher at the University of Genoa (Italy) and as a humanist at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (Spain). In 2020, he published Las cosas como son y otras fantasías (Anagrama Argumentos), a literary essay offering a way out of the deadlock that has constrained the relationship between art and morality in the 21st century. He argues that neither superficial moralism, which demands art to be correct, nor the moral indifference promoted by a misunderstood liberalism captures the essence of ethics or its relation to artistic impulse. Luque suggests that imperfect moral virtues, literary or narrative imagination, and worldly vicissitudes are the ethical sources from which any work with something human to say draws.
In collaboration with Natalia Carrillo, he published Hipocondría moral (Nuevos cuadernos Anagrama) in 2022, where they identify a strange but omnipresent contemporary phenomenon: we feel guilt when we are guilty, but especially when we are not. In this essay, they critique the contemporary choice (or imposition) of guilt as the primary emotion structuring our relationship with the world's calamities. They propose that it would be much more fruitful politically, morally, and even philosophically to replace guilt with responsibility.
With Ñu (Anagrama Narrativas hispánicas), published in 2024, Luque gives a new twist to genre hybridization, inventing the essay with characters. Real and fictional creatures wander and converse in Ñu about their lives, their ideas, love and friendship, and the unsettling possibility that what we call "solution" might be nothing more than an inevitable fantasy.
Other activities involving the participant:
Inaugural Talk: The Recovery of the Lost Home… That Perhaps We Don’t Want to Recover