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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Latin America Viva
FIL Literature
Latin America Viva
Participants: Lucrecia Zappi, Tamara Silva Bernaschina, Carlos Aletto
Moderator: Rogelio Guedea
Lucrecia Zappi
(Argentina, 1972)
Brazilian writer, journalist and translator. Her childhood and adolescence were spent between São Paulo and Mexico City.
She is the author of three novels: Onça Preta (Benvira, 2013), Acre (Todavía, 2017) and Degelo (Todavía, 2023) -, translated into Spanish (La Huerta Grande, Spain). Acre was a finalist for the Jabuti Prize in the novel category, the most prestigious in Brazil.
With his first book, Mil-folhas (Cosac Naify, 2009), a gastronomic journey through the history of sweets, won the Bologna Ragazzi International Prize in 2011.
She studied visual arts at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. Back in Brazil, she worked for Folha de S. Paulo for years, covering mainly contemporary art topics. She currently writes a monthly column for this newspaper.
She lives in New York, where she earned a master's degree in creative writing at New York University. She is working on her fourth novel.
Other activities involving the participant:
Destinação Brazil
Tamara Silva Bernaschina
(Uruguay, 2000)
I was born in the city of Minas, in the mountains of Uruguay, in the year 2000. I grew up between my house and my grandparents' houses. When I learned to read and write, about the age of six, I started to imagine better. I wrote down my first stories at that time. I used to read them to my sister. At the age of fifteen I moved to the countryside, in Aiguá, a city in the Department of Maldonado. Chester, Mimi, Diana and Linda live there, happy dogs. I am a student of the Bachelor of Arts of the Faculty of Humanities and Educational Sciences in Montevideo.
I am the author of the book of short stories Desastres naturales, my debut feature, published last year by Estuario editora, in Uruguay. This short story won two Bartolomé Hidalgo awards for Narrative and Revelation. That book took me to places I had never been before, and brought me closer to other authors I admire. Many joys. I also wrote Temporada de ballenas, a novel that was published in Uruguay last September and received an honorable mention in the Juan Carlos Onetti literary contest. This year, the Mexican publishing house Paraíso Perdido published Desastres naturales, and that is a reason for immense emotion. I've only been to Mexico twice, and I love it more and more.
Other activities involving the participant:
Annual International Storytellers Conference
National Awards
Carlos Aletto
(Argentina, 1967)
Nací en Mar del Plata en 1967, una ciudad que el viento asentó junto al mar y que ha servido de escenario para algunas de mis ficciones. Soy escritor y licenciado en letras.
Entre mis obras destaco Once segundos, una novela donde el tiempo se detiene en el segundo gol de Maradona a los ingleses, y Anatomía de la melancolía, una mirada íntima sobre el Renacimiento. En los cuentos de Antes de perder, exploro el final de la infancia.
Fui editor de la revista Unicornio, un caballo con suerte, y director del Suplemento Literario Télam, desde donde tuve la oportunidad de dar visibilidad a numerosas obras argentinas.
En 2008, el jurado me destacó por unanimidad entre 6,660 participantes, otorgándome el primer lugar en el Concurso de Cuento Clarín. En 2014 obtuve el Primer Premio Municipal de Literatura de Buenos Aires.
Como periodista despliego mi mirada crítica en medios de renombre. En Clarín escribo la columna 'Vidas para leer' de la revista Viva. En Página/12 colaboro con notas en Radar Libros, destacando historias sobre libros y personajes.
Además de escritor y periodista, soy padre de tres hijos: Lorenzo, Santino y Oliverio, nombres que, ¿quién sabe?, algún día tal vez protagonizarán uno de mis cuentos, o ya lo hacen en la historia que vivo a diario.
Other activities involving the participant:
Annual International Storytellers Conference
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara