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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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Latin art and literature. Philos magazine
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Latin art and literature. Philos magazine
A dialogue about the literature and art of Ibero-America through the eyes of someone who transforms literary and artistic affinities into instruments of cooperation among Latin American people.
Participants: Kátia Bandeira de Mello Gerlach, Maria Alzira Brum Lemos, Jorge Pereira
Kátia Bandeira de Mello Gerlach
Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in the United States. She graduated in law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). She joined the faculty of the Unknown University of Brooklyn under the presidency of Enrique Vila-Matas. She was a student of the Disquiet International Program in Lisbon, thanks to the scholarship from the Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento (FLAD). She is a recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Literary Arts program.
Published in La Cause Littéraire, Colóquio - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Curious Fiction, Words without Borders, São Paulo Review, Jornal Rascunho, Revista InComunidade and Cenas Magazine (Raimundo Carrero Cultural Center). She is a columnist and curator of the magazine Philos –Latin Union Journal of Literature.
Her books published by the publisher Confraria do Vento are: Colisões Bestiais (Particle)res (2015); Jogos (Ben)ditos e Folias (Mal)ditas (2017); Artist's Caderno (2022) and A Patafísica do Quadrado, um romance na rota das galochas (2022). Earlier, she published Forrageiras de Jade (2009) and Forasteiros (2013) by the Projeto Dulcinéia Catadora.
She participated and organized in various anthologies and collections, including Nosotros Editor Oito e Meio (2017) and Perdidas: histórias para crianças que não tem vez, Imã Editorial (2018).
In Portugal, her book Baleias, Bromélias e Outra Naturezas it was published by the Publisher Gato Bravo in 2022, and she has a book of poetic essays printed by the Publishing House Editorial Húmus, Lisbon. She received the Writer Without Borders Award at the Flipoços Literary Festival in 2018. In 2020 she was a guest writer at the IX Portuguese Language Meeting organized by the University of Massachusetts/Boston and the Camões Institute. She is a frequent guest writer at the West Point Academy, Columbia University, and the Camões Institute. She has participated in several international fairs and festivals such as the FIL Guadalajara, LitFestBergen, Folio/Óbidos, New York Poetry Festival, and Lincoln Center.
She has several projects underway (novels and illustrated books).
Other activities involving the participant:
Destinação Brasil
Maria Alzira Brum Lemos
(Brazil)
She is a bilingual writer, in Portuguese and Spanish. She has a PhD in communication and semiotics from PUC-São Paulo, and a degree in history and philosophy of science. Creator and coordinator of the Texts Creation and Development Workshop-Laboratory (collective, in-person, online). She is an independent translator, teacher and researcher. She has published, in addition to more than twelve collective books, A Ordem Secreta dos Ornitorricos (Brazil, Amauta, 2008, Peru, Borrador, 2009, Mexico, Aldus, 2014), Novela suvenir (Mexico, Fonca-Santa Muerte Cartonera, 2009, and 2013 Editorial, 2014, Peru, Punto de Narrativa, 2010), No hacerlo (Mexico, Librosampleados, 2014), Muestra táctil and Ensayo para no morir en la playa (Curitiba, Medusa, 2017), Gx2-Realidade total (São Paulo, Desconciertos, 2017).
She was curator, among others, of the Transitive Americas project, carried out in Curitiba and Foz do Iguaçu, in 2017. She participated in anthologies, artistic projects and residencies in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, the United States, Argentina, Spain, Japan, Guatemala, Nicaragua and Italy. Reviews, commentaries and academic articles on her work have been published in Brazil, Portugal, United States, Spain, Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, among others.
She has participated in literary fairs and festivals in Peru, Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. She also collaborated in various media in several countries with articles, essays, fiction.
Her creative work includes collective works and performances with different groups, materials, languages and proposals. She has taught courses, as a visiting professor, among others, at the Federal University of Paraná (master's degree and doctorate in Latin American literature) and at the Pedagogical and Technological University of Colombia (UPTC) (master's degree in creative writing and doctorate in history).
Other activities involving the participant:
Destinação Brasil
Jorge Pereira
He holds a degree in biomedicine from the Federal University of Pernambuco [UFPE], a master's degree in genetics from the Graduate Program in Genetics at UFPE [PPGG-UFPE] and is a specialist in literary adaptations for Brazilian cinema from the Moreira Salles Institute [IMS-SP]. He is editor-in-chief of Philos - Latin Union Journal of Literature and curator of Casa Philos, reviewer of the African Journal of Biotechnology [2018-2020] and the International Journal of Genetics and Molecular Biology [2022-present]. He has published articles in magazines of the group Nature, as Frontiers in Microbiology and Scientific Reports; Informe de Biología Genética y Molecular, Planta Médica y Biología Molecular. In 2023 he was nominated for the PublishNews Award of young talents of the Brazilian publishing market.
Tuesday November 28
19:00 to 19:50
Salón C, Área Internacional, Expo Guadalajara