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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Written with ink and chlorophyll
FIL Literature
Written with ink and chlorophyll
Participants: Yayo Herrero, Luci Romero, Mariana Matija
Moderator: Jorge Comensal
Yayo Herrero
Invitado de Honor(1965) Herrero has a PhD in Social and Political Science, a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology, and a degree in Social Education and Agricultural Technical Engineering. She is a member-worker at Garúa Sociedad Cooperativa, as well as a consultant, researcher, teacher and writer in the fields of political ecology, eco-feminism, eco-social transitions and education for the sustainability of life. For decades, she has been combining her work with active participation in social movements, especially the environmental movement.
Her latest publications are Toma de Tierra (2023, Caniche), Ecofeminismos. La sostenibilidad de la vida (Icaria, 2023), Educar para la sostenibilidad de la vida. Una mirada ecofeminista a la educación (2022, Octaedro), Derechos Humanos (2022, Litera), Ausencias y extravíos (2021, Ediciones Contextatarias y Libros en Acción) and Ecofeminismos para tiempos de crisis (2020, Pabellón 6).
She has coordinated and written in works such as Tiempo para la vida (Charo Morán, Helena Pariente and Yayo Herrero; 2022, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona), Cambio climático (Yayo Herrero, María González Reyes and Berta Páramo; 2019, Ediciones Litera), La vida en el centro. Voces y relatos ecofeministas (Yayo Herrero, María González, Marta Pascual, illustrated by Emma Gascó; 2018, Libros en Acción), La gran encrucijada. Sobre la crisis ecosocial y el cambio de ciclo histórico (Fernando Prats, Yayo Herrero, Alicia Torrego; 2016, Libros en Acción), Cambiar las gafas de ver el mundo. Una nueva cultura de sostenibilidad (Yayo Herrero, Fernando Cembranos and Marta Pascual (coords.); 2011, Libros en Acción), Educación y Ecología. El currículum oculto antiecológico de los libros de texto (Fernando Cembranos, Yayo Herrero y Marta Pascual (coords.); 2007, Editorial Popular).
She has published dozens of articles in anthologies. Part of her work has been translated into Catalan, Basque, Italian, French, English, German and Korean.
Other activities involving the participant:
Worldly ailments of the Earth
Luci Romero
Invitado de Honor(1980, Cabra, Córdoba) is a cultural manager, writer and (ex)bookseller, with a degree in Art History, a Master's in Conservation and Management of Cultural Heritage, and a Postgraduate in Literature Theory and Literary Critique (Universidad de Valencia). For nine years, she co-owned the Bartleby bookstore in Valencia.
As a poet, she is the author of the books: Autovía del Este, El diluvio (Amargord), Western (Delirio) and El tiempo de la quema (Ejemplar único). She also appears in the anthology Sais.Diecinueve poetas desde La Bella Varsovia (La Bella Varsovia). She was the co-editor of the Flechas de Atalanta booklet, which features poetry and illustrations, and in 2010, she won the La Voz+joven Award from La Casa Encendida. In 2023, she published the essay on the writing of nature or literature, El arte de contar la naturaleza.Un acercamiento a la nature writing (Barlin Libros). In 2024, she published the poetry book No sabe la semilla de qué mano ha caído from Eolas publishers.
She has featured in festivals such as Letras Verdes and Siberiana. In 2023, she received the inaugural Literature and Environment Residency from the National Center for Environmental Education (CENEAM) within the National Parks organization.
She currently lives in Valencia.
Other activities involving the participant:
The letters of the garden
Mariana Matija
Mariana Matija es un animal que dibuja y escribe. Su trabajo se centra en la exploración creativa, la educación y la comunicación en torno a la regeneración de nuestra relación individual y colectiva con la Tierra. Desde el club ecologista que fundó en la infancia, y después con su blog, newsletter, pódcast, libros y talleres, se ha dedicado a compartir ideas, prácticas y herramientas para cultivar vidas que cuiden de la Tierra y de todos sus seres (incluyéndonos a nosotros mismos). Dirige y cuida una comunidad online que funciona como una red de cuidado y coaprendizaje para quienes quieren cultivar vidas con sentido en medio de la crisis, compartiendo prácticas que nutren la atención, el cuidado y el asombro. Su libro más reciente, Niñapájaroglaciar, explora la relación con la belleza, el dolor, el amor, la extinción, el lenguaje, la memoria, el paisaje como cuerpo, y el cuerpo como paisaje en el fin de un mundo (que es también un principio).
Other activities involving the participant:
The language of plants and animals
Jorge Comensal
Writer and editor. He has published the novels Las mutaciones (2016), translated into a dozen languages, and Este vacío que hierve (2022), as well as the essay Yonquis de las letras (2017) and the biography El biólogo de la Revolución (2024). His essays, chronicles, and articles have appeared in magazines such as Gatopardo, Tierra Adentro, nexos, The Paris Review, and Revista de la Universidad de México, of which he is currently the director. He is a columnist for El País and Chilango, and is writing the history of the reintroduction of the California condor in Mexico.
Other activities involving the participant:
The craft of being an author. From notebook to book
Organiza: FIL Guadalajara, with the support of Ministerio de Cultura de España, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and Ministerio de Cultura de Colombia
Sunday December 01
19:30 to 20:50
Salón H, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara