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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Gothic and boreal stone: Nordic poetry in Latin America
FIL Literature
Gothic and boreal stone: Nordic poetry in Latin America
Participants: Mercedes Alvarado, Roxana Crisólogo, José Luis Rico, Petronella Zetterlund
Mercedes Alvarado
(México). Escritora y docente, ha publicado Nombres propios (Elefanta, 2023), Días de luz larga (Elefanta, 2020) y Apuntes de algún tiempo (Verso Destierro, 2013). Autora y productora de Y hasta la muerte amar (2017), proyecto multidisciplinario que conjuga poesía, ilustración, música y animación 2D [www.yhastalamuerteamar.com]. Su libro Nombres propios fue distinguido como Libro del Año 2023 en la categoría de no ficción por la Cámara de la Industria Editorial de México. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en diversas revistas, fanzines y antologías en Europa y América. Entre 2014 y 2016 trabajó en la Embajada de México en Noruega, país en el que gestionó diversos proyectos culturales, con especial énfasis en la literatura mexicana. Ha traducido del noruego algunos poemas de Tor Ulven, Helge Torvund y Ane Nydal. Actualmente se encuentra curando una selección de poetas noruegos para su publicación en español en 2024.
Roxana Crisólogo
Poet, translator, cultural manager, with law studies. She has published the books of poetry: Abajo sobre el cielo (Lima, 1999) whose Finnish translation Alhaalla taivaan yllä was published by Kääntöpiiri, Helsinki, 2001. She also published Animal del camino (Lima, 2001) republished by Libros del Cardo editions (Chile, 2019), Ludy D (Lima, 2006), Trenes (Mexico, 2010). Eisbrecher (Hochroth Verlag, 2017) is the title of the collection of her poetry translated into German. Sotto sopra il cielo, is the title of the anthology of his poetry translated into Italian published by Seri Editore. Kauneus La belleza (Intermezzo Tropical, Lima, 2021) is his most recent book of poetry, republished by Ediciones Nebliplateada (Buenos Aires, 2023). She lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.
José Luis Rico
He is a poet and translator based in Helsinki. She has published Blanco (2012, La Dïééresis), Duna (2013, FETA), Jabalíes (2015, FETA; Francisco Cervantes Vidal National Youth Poetry Prize) and El aire es esta piedra en la que voy (2015, La Vencedora). In 2021 he curated Arúspice rascacielos, an anthology of Mariela Dreyfus' work, in Lima. In 2022 he published the translation Disco de titanes, by the Finnish poet Sini Silveri, with Pitzilein Books. Rico has received grants from the Foundation for Mexican Letters, the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (Fonca), the Graduate School of New York University, the Finnish Arts Promotion Center (TAIKE), and the Niilo Helander and Kone Foundations of Finland. He frequents the sauna, and complains about the price of mezcal.
Petronella Zetterlund
(Suecia, 1974). Es maestra en Letras Hispánicas, traductora, editora, productora y gestora cultural. Es cofundadora y gestora de Nordic Exchange in Literature, proyecto nórdico de literatura multilingüe, y es cofundadora, subdirectora y coordinadora general de NOX Escuela de Escritura Creativa, donde también imparte laboratorios de traducción literaria. Entre sus traducciones de literatura sueca se encuentran publicados los libros Ma de Ida Börjel (Filodecaballos, 2019), Álbum de Leif Holmstrand (Palacio de la Fatalidad, 2018), Los otros jardines y En el ramaje de Lennart Sjögren (Esquina Tomada, Medellín, 2023) y Cosas que provocan inquietud de Jenny Tunedal (Palacio de la Fatalidad, 2018), entre otros, así como la colección de cuentos Alrededor de las rejas de Agnes von Krusenstjerna (UNAM/Colección Lic. Vidriera, 2020). Desde 2017 reside en Ciudad de México y trabaja como independiente bajo el sello Petzetera Texts and Other Texts.
Monday November 27
19:30 to 20:50
Salón D, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara