Marisol Schulz Manaut

Marisol Schulz Manaut is an editor, commentator, speaker, cultural journalist, and expert in the literary and publishing world. She has received multiple recognitions for her work promoting reading and advocating for the future of books and the Spanish language.

For the past twelve years, she has served as the director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered the most important Spanish-language book fair and one of the most significant in the world. Under her leadership, FIL Guadalajara has received several awards, including the prestigious Princess of Asturias Award in the area of Communication and Humanities, shared with the Hay Festival; the Order of Rio Branco from Brazil; and recently, the Sor Juana Medal, a recognition granted by the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana in Mexico.

She also directs the Los Angeles Spanish Language Book Fair and Literary Festival, an ambitious program aimed at promoting books and reading in Spanish in the United States, founded in 2011.

For over four decades, Marisol Schulz has focused on the book and reading sector, leading editorial areas in various public and private organizations, such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS). She was the editorial director at Plaza y Janés Mexico and spent 17 years at Grupo Santillana, first as executive editor and later as director of the Taurus and Alfaguara imprints in Mexico. She was responsible for the edition of major Ibero-American writers such as Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, José Saramago, Arturo Pérez Reverte, Elena Poniatowska, Augusto Monterroso, Sergio Ramírez, Carmen Boullosa, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, and Xavier Velasco, among others.

In 2013, the Mexican edition of Forbes recognized her as one of the 50 most powerful women in Mexico. In 2016 and 2020, the magazine Quién named her one of the "50 people who move Mexico." In 2021, she received the National Juan Pablos Award for Editorial Merit, a recognition granted annually by the Mexican Chamber of the Publishing Industry (Cámara Nacional de la Industria Editorial Mexicana).

Other activities involving the participant:

Indigenous Literature Award 2025
Diana Moreno Toscano Latin American Young Poetry Prize 2025
Acknowledgments and closing
The privilege of turning off the light
The universal humanist
Inauguration
Inter-American Publishers Group Award

María Elena Saucedo Lugo

(Ciudad de México, 1954)

Es maestra en bibliotecología por el College of Librarianship, University of Wales, Reino Unido, y licenciada en bibliotecología por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Se ha desempeñado profesionalmente en la Biblioteca del Niño del Instituto Mexicano de Asistencia a la Niñez (IMAN), en el Centro de Información y Documentación Universitarias de la Unión de Universidades de América Latina (UDUAL), en la Oficina de Documentación del Centro de Tecnología de Semiconductores del CINVESTAV en Guadalajara, así como en la Biblioteca Benjamín Franklin del Consulado General de los Estados Unidos en Guadalajara, en donde además, fungió por casi tres décadas como Especialista en asuntos culturales de la Sección de Diplomacia Pública. Ha sido impulsora del Intercambio Académico y Cultural entre los Estados Unidos y México, promoviendo diversos proyectos para beneficio de la Región Centro Occidente de nuestro país. Asimismo, ha sido docente en el Colegio de Bibliotecología de la UNAM, así como en la Universidad de Guadalajara.
 

Other activities involving the participant:

Tribute to María Elena Saucedo Lugo

Sergio López Ruelas

Doctor in Library Science and Information Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Master's in Information Science from the University of Guanajuato. Bachelor's in Library Science from the University of Guadalajara. He is the Coordinator of Libraries at the University of Guadalajara. He is also a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI).

Other activities involving the participant:

Closing Ceremony of the XXXIX International Librarians’ Colloquium