
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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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.

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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Dialogue: “Machines that read, voices that resist”
FIL Professionals
Annual Reading Promoters Conference
Dialogue: “Machines that read, voices that resist”
In a world where screens, networks, and now artificial intelligence are radically transforming our relationship with the written word, what place does reading hold today? This conversation between Naief Yehya and Samuel Larson invites us to look both backward—to the burned libraries and the utopias of science fiction—and forward—to the algorithms that write and summarize on our behalf—in order to ask how we can sustain the joy, resistance, and depth of books amid these ongoing cultural transformations
Participants: Samuel Larson Guerra, José Ramón Mikelajáuregui
Presenter: Imelda Martorell

Samuel Larson Guerra
Escritor, ensayista y académico nacido en la Ciudad de México. Terminando el bachillerato realiza estudios inconclusos de música y filosofía, para después ingresar a la Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV en Cuba de donde egresa, en 1990, como realizador. Desde 1991 trabaja profesionalmente como diseñador de sonido, editor y compositor de música original para cine y televisión, ámbito en el que ha recibido diversos reconocimientos. Tiene una trayectoria académica docente de más de 25 años.
Actualmente es profesor en el Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (CCC), en la Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas (ENAC), en la Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) de Cuba y en la Facultad de Cine (FAC). Como parte de su labor académica escribe el libro Pensar el sonido. Una introducción a la Teoría y la Práctica del Lenguaje Sonoro Cinematográfico (CUEC, 2010). Ha publicado también diversos artículos, entre los que destaca “La descorporalización de la música y el oído temperado” incluido en el libro La dimensión sensorial de la cultura. Diez contribuciones al estudio de los sentidos en México (UAM-Ediciones del Lirio, 2017). En 2017 recibe el Teaching Award de CILECT (Asociación Internacional de Escuelas de Cine y Televisión), como reconocimiento a sus méritos pedagógicos.

José Ramón Mikelajáuregui
(Ciudad de México, 1968)
Es cineasta, documentalista y uno de los creadores mexicanos más destacados en el trabajo con imagen-archivo. Su obra explora la memoria visual del país y revela cómo las tecnologías de cada época —de las primeras cámaras al montaje digital contemporáneo— transforman nuestra relación con la realidad y con los relatos que la explican. Ganador del Ariel por La historia en la mirada, ha dedicado buena parte de su trayectoria a rescatar, reinterpretar y resignificar materiales fílmicos que permiten leer el pasado desde nuevas claves. En documentales como El poder en la mirada dialoga con los orígenes del cine, con la construcción de la mirada pública y con la capacidad de las imágenes para resistir el olvido. Su trabajo resulta especialmente relevante hoy, cuando las pantallas, los algoritmos y la inteligencia artificial modifican nuestra manera de ver, narrar y leer el mundo. Desde su experiencia con archivos y tecnologías de representación, Mikelajáuregui ofrece una reflexión crítica sobre la memoria, la lectura y la persistencia de las voces humanas en medio de mutaciones culturales aceleradas.

Imelda Martorell
A leading promoter of reading in Mexico, she directed the International Children’s and Young Adult Book Fair (FILIJ) for thirteen years and contributed to the creation of the National Reading Rooms Program, bringing books to communities beyond libraries and classrooms. Since 2009, she has worked in the Cultural Outreach Coordination at UNAM, where she currently serves as Coordinator for the Promotion of Reading and Written Culture. She leads the José Emilio Pacheco Reading Chair, the University Reading System Universo de Letras, and the Fiesta del Libro y la Rosa, fostering reading and writing among young people. She has also promoted Aquí Tú Cuentas +50, an oral storytelling program for older adults. Her work has been key in developing readers across different sectors and generations. She has served as a jury member for the Gran Angular Young Adult Literature Award and has given lectures and reading mediation workshops with teachers and parents at various national and international book fairs.
Other activities involving the participant:
Cities that celebrate books and readers: Sant Jordi, orchids, spring, and more…
Tuesday December 02
13:10 to 14:00
Salón Enrique González Martínez, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara