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 The winning author, who must write in Spanish and have at least ten unpublished poems or poems published in the last five years that are related to nature, urban sustainability, socio-ecological harmony and environmental conservation, will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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International Storytellers Conference
From the land of Rulfo and Arreola and standing in the continent of Borges and Quiroga, we continue to greet the short story and the fans of the short genre. Today, and for the last 17 years, the Guadalajara International Book Fair has insisted on betting with determination on the short story genre and organizing a meeting that is a permanent part of its program, something like a sanctuary of a protected literary species; a reserve outside the laws of the market, which promotes a space to close the gap between authors and readers.
We can proudly say that today this space has gone from being a passion of minorities to being one of the most endearing and crowded activities of the Fair.
Coming from different latitudes and literary traditions, 127 authors from 27 countries will have paraded through this space, including the eight participants in this edition. Throughout these years, we have heard from their authors tales that are disgusting, moving, about love, revenge, rage and reconciliation, short stories that have not let us ignore them.
The history of participants who have traveled through these dialogue tables has become a compass to follow the route of the story in different languages and an invitation to delve into the work of each of the authors.
The famous Mexican author Alberto Chimal coordinated this edition of the meeting, lavishly giving us his friendship and his knowledge of the genre. We also thank all the institutions that joined this open space for the enjoyment and promotion of short stories this year. Welcome, storytellers.
Participants: María José Navia, Jorge Volpi
Moderator: Alberto Chimal
María José Navia
(Santiago de Chile, 1982). Es escritora y académica chilena. Magíster en humanidades y pensamiento social por la Universidad de Nueva York (NYU), y doctora en literatura y estudios culturales por la Universidad de Georgetown. Actualmente es profesora en la Facultad de Letras de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Es autora de las novelas SANT (Incubarte, 2010) y Kintsugi (Kindberg, 2018; Himpar, 2020; Polilla, 2022; Concreto, 2023) y de las colecciones de cuentos Instrucciones para ser feliz (Sudaquia, 2015), Lugar (Ediciones de la Lumbre, 2017; finalista del Premio Municipal de Literatura) y Una música futura (Kindberg, 2020; Barrett, 2021; Marciana,2023; ganadora del concurso Mejores Obras Literarias que entrega el Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile, y finalista del Premio Municipal de literatura). También ha publicado la novela infantil El mapa secreto de las cosas (Amanuta, 2020; Premio Medalla Colibrí IBBY Chile al mejor libro de ficción infantil) y ha grabado la versión audiolibro de tres de sus obras: Lugar (Leolento), Kintsugi (Storytel) y Una música futura (Scribd).
En el año 2022 resultó finalista del Premio Internacional Ribera del Duero por su libro de cuentos Todo lo que aprendimos de las películas, que fue publicado a comienzos de 2023 por la editorial Páginas de Espuma.
Jorge Volpi
(México, 1968)
He is the author of fifteen novels, among which the following stand out In Spite the Dark Silence (1993), the Twentieth Century Trilogy consisting of In Search of Klingsor (Biblioteca Breve Prize, 1999), The End of Madness (2003) and Season of Ash (2006); La tejedora de sombras (Planet-Casa de América Award, 2011), Dark Forest Dark (2010), Memorial del engaño (2013), Las elegidas (2014) and Una novela criminal (Alfaguara Prize, 2018), from which the Netflix documentary series of the same name was made, and Partes de guerra (2022).
He has also written the essays Imagination and Power (1998), War and Words (2004), Contagious Lies (Mazatlan Award, 2008), Bolivar's Insomnia (Debate Casa de América Award, 2009), Reading the Mind (2011) and Examen de mi padre (2016) and the play Las agujas dementes(2020).
In 2008 he received the José Donoso Award for his body of work and the Medal of the Order of Isabella the Catholic of Spain. He is a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His books have been translated into thirty languages.
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Alberto Chimal
(Toluca, México, 1970) es escritor y profesor de escritura creativa. Entre otros reconocimientos, en 2002 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Cuento y en 2014 el Premio de Narrativa Colima, otorgados por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; en 2013 su novela La torre y el jardín fue finalista del Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos; en 2019 su libro para niños La Distante recibió el premio internacional de la Fundación Cuatrogatos, y en 2021 su novela juvenil La noche en la zona M ganó el premio internacional del Banco del Libro. Otras de sus obras son las novelas Los esclavos (2009) y La visitante (2022); una veintena de libros de cuentos, de los que el más reciente es La saga del Viajero del Tiempo (2021); los guiones de las películas 7:19 (2016), dirigida por Jorge Michel Grau, y Confesiones (2022), dirigida por Carlos Carrera; y Funeral, una historia ilustrada por Rulo Valdés que forma parte de la novela gráfica Batman: El Mundo (2021), publicada por DC Comics. Textos suyos se han traducido a una docena de idiomas y han aparecido en antologías internacionales.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Galas
International Storytellers Conference
International Storytellers Conference
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating
Thursday November 30
19:00 to 19:50
Salón 3, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara
FIL Literature
International Storytellers Conference
From the land of Rulfo and Arreola and standing in the continent of Borges and Quiroga, we continue to greet the short story and the fans of the short genre. Today, and for the last 17 years, the Guadalajara International Book Fair has insisted on betting with determination on the short story genre and organizing a meeting that is a permanent part of its program, something like a sanctuary of a protected literary species; a reserve outside the laws of the market, which promotes a space to close the gap between authors and readers.
We can proudly say that today this space has gone from being a passion of minorities to being one of the most endearing and crowded activities of the Fair.
Coming from different latitudes and literary traditions, 127 authors from 27 countries will have paraded through this space, including the eight participants in this edition. Throughout these years, we have heard from their authors tales that are disgusting, moving, about love, revenge, rage and reconciliation, short stories that have not let us ignore them.
The history of participants who have traveled through these dialogue tables has become a compass to follow the route of the story in different languages and an invitation to delve into the work of each of the authors.
The famous Mexican author Alberto Chimal coordinated this edition of the meeting, lavishly giving us his friendship and his knowledge of the genre. We also thank all the institutions that joined this open space for the enjoyment and promotion of short stories this year. Welcome, storytellers.
Participants: Fernando Navarro, Julia Rios, Sofía Morfín Jean
Moderator: Alberto Chimal
Fernando Navarro
(Spain, 1980)
Writer and screenwriter born in Granada. As a film screenwriter, he has collaborated with filmmakers such as Álex de la Iglesia, Rodrigo Cortés, Paco Plaza, Jonás Trueba and Jaume Balagueró. He has been nominated twice for the Goya Awards, in the categories of Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay. Among his filmography stand out Toro (2016), Veronica (2018) and A Perfect Enemy (2020). His most recent script to date is Below Zero (2021), a thriller for Netflix that reached the number-one position in more than 55 countries.
He is a member of the Writers Guild of America and has taught Creative Writing workshops at Syracuse University and Le Moyne College, both in New York. He has collaborated with media such as Radio 3, Cadena SER, MondoSonoro or Letras Libres. His collection of short stories Malaventura (Impedimenta) it is his first book.
Other activities involving the participant:
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Julia Rios
(United States od America, 1978)
I was born in 1978 in Los Angeles, California. My father came to the USA from Yucatán when he was a teenager, and eventually became a psychologist. He loved reading and discussing everything from folktales and literature to science, and philosophy. My mother is also a voracious reader, so it’s perhaps not surprising that I have always been drawn to storytelling.
I began editing short fiction for the online science fiction and fantasy magazine, Strange Horizons in 2012, and I have been doing that ever since for both magazines and anthologies. I won the Hugo Award in 2017 and 2018 for my work as Reprint and Poetry Editor at Uncanny Magazine, and I was also a Hugo Award Finalist for other editing work in 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, and 2019. My current project is editing and publishing uplifting science fiction and fantasy stories, poems, and art in Worlds of Possibility.
I also write my own stories and poems and essays. My stories have been published in several places including Speculative Fiction for Dreamers (The Ohio State University Press, 2021, Alex Hernandez, Steve Goodwin, and Sara Rafael García, editors) and Shadow Atlas (Hex Publishers, 2021, Carina Bissett, Hillary Dodge, and Josh Viola, editors). “A Truth Universally Acknowledged” (A Larger Reality, 2018, Libia Brenda, editor) was reprinted in Latin American Literature Today.
Sofía Morfín Jean
(México)
I am Sofía Morfin Jean, I was born in 1992 and I am "chilanga" by birth and by choice. I firmly believe that there is no better place to spend the years laughing and crying than in chaotic Mexico City. My first collection of short stories Big Bang Bermellón won the Gilberto Owen National Literature Award 2023 and will be published later this year by Pollo Blanco Publishing House (purchase your copy as soon as possible). I have also published short stories and opinion texts inTierra Adentro, C de Cultura and Mi Valedor. In 2021, I graduated from the diploma of creative writing by the Sogem Writers School, and I currently work as a film and television screenwriter. What I like most in life is literature. After money. And after buying books that I don't have enough time to read.
Alberto Chimal
(Toluca, México, 1970) es escritor y profesor de escritura creativa. Entre otros reconocimientos, en 2002 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Cuento y en 2014 el Premio de Narrativa Colima, otorgados por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; en 2013 su novela La torre y el jardín fue finalista del Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos; en 2019 su libro para niños La Distante recibió el premio internacional de la Fundación Cuatrogatos, y en 2021 su novela juvenil La noche en la zona M ganó el premio internacional del Banco del Libro. Otras de sus obras son las novelas Los esclavos (2009) y La visitante (2022); una veintena de libros de cuentos, de los que el más reciente es La saga del Viajero del Tiempo (2021); los guiones de las películas 7:19 (2016), dirigida por Jorge Michel Grau, y Confesiones (2022), dirigida por Carlos Carrera; y Funeral, una historia ilustrada por Rulo Valdés que forma parte de la novela gráfica Batman: El Mundo (2021), publicada por DC Comics. Textos suyos se han traducido a una docena de idiomas y han aparecido en antologías internacionales.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Galas
International Storytellers Conference
International Storytellers Conference
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating
Friday December 01
19:00 to 19:50
Salón 3, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara
FIL Literature
International Storytellers Conference
From the land of Rulfo and Arreola and standing in the continent of Borges and Quiroga, we continue to greet the short story and the fans of the short genre. Today, and for the last 17 years, the Guadalajara International Book Fair has insisted on betting with determination on the short story genre and organizing a meeting that is a permanent part of its program, something like a sanctuary of a protected literary species; a reserve outside the laws of the market, which promotes a space to close the gap between authors and readers.
We can proudly say that today this space has gone from being a passion of minorities to being one of the most endearing and crowded activities of the Fair.
Coming from different latitudes and literary traditions, 127 authors from 27 countries will have paraded through this space, including the eight participants in this edition. Throughout these years, we have heard from their authors tales that are disgusting, moving, about love, revenge, rage and reconciliation, short stories that have not let us ignore them.
The history of participants who have traveled through these dialogue tables has become a compass to follow the route of the story in different languages and an invitation to delve into the work of each of the authors.
The famous Mexican author Alberto Chimal coordinated this edition of the meeting, lavishly giving us his friendship and his knowledge of the genre. We also thank all the institutions that joined this open space for the enjoyment and promotion of short stories this year. Welcome, storytellers.
Participants: Sonia Budassi, Claudia Cabrera Espinosa, Alejandro von Düben
Moderator: Alberto Chimal
Sonia Budassi
Nació en Bahía Blanca (Argentina). Es escritora, editora, periodista cultural y docente de escritura creativa. Su más reciente libro de ficción Animales de compañía, ganó el Primer Premio de Letras del Fondo Nacional de las Artes. Acaba de publicar Donde nada se detiene. Literatura y el resto del mundo, libro de crónicas y ensayos literarios.
Es autora de los libros de cuentos Los domingos son para dormir, Periodismo y la nouvelle Acto de fe y los de no ficción La frontera imposible: Israel-Palestina, Apache. En busca de Carlos Tevez y Mujeres de Dios.
Formó parte de antologías en México, Argentina, España, Francia y Estados Unidos. Dirige la revista de Cultura de elDiarioAR; antes fue editora de Anfibia, de la revista Ñ del diario Clarín, y del sello literario Tamarisco, del cual fue cofundadora.
Colabora regularmente en las revistas Acción, Anfibia y Panamá, también escribió para Crisis, Ñ, Página/12, Rapto de Europa y 5 W (España), entre otros medios. Obtuvo la beca Emergencias en periodismo cultural, del Centro Cultural de España-AECID para una estancia en Madrid; y otra para participar del Workshop en guion y dirección de la NYF Academy y Harvard University. Fue invitada como visiting scholar en Shanghái University (China) y la Universidad de Waseda (Japón).
Es profesora de escritura creativa en el posgrado de periodismo narrativo en la Universidad Nacional de San Martín y en la Universidad Austral, y dicta talleres y clínicas de obra para otras instituciones. Fue docente de crítica cultural en el posgrado en periodismo cultural de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata, y jurado en distintos concursos literarios; como el del Festival Basado en Hechos Reales (BHR), el de Crónica Patagónica, el de la Feria del Libro de La Rioja, y Ser Bonaerense del Instituto Cultural de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, entre otros.
Other activities involving the participant:
Latin America Viva
Claudia Cabrera Espinosa
I was born in Mexico City in 1984, where I have always lived, except for a year I spent in Marseille working at the Lycée Michelet, near the port, and a couple of years I lived in Madrid doing a master's degree in literary editing and some research residencies. I have a PhD in Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), where I teach Spanish literature, and I am a postdoctoral researcher at El Colegio de México; I enjoy both deeply. I spend a good part of my time writing essays on literature of unreality by authors such as Emilia Pardo Bazán, José María Merino or Amparo Dávila. I travel as much as I can and I like to incorporate the sense of strangeness of the new into my narratives, as well as the stories I hunt for in faraway places.
I am the author of the story books Los desterrados (2023), Las ondulaciones del mar (2020) and Posibilidad de los mundos (2019), with which I won the José Emilio Pacheco City and Nature Award, and the children's books El cuaderno de Ana and Una historia de aventis. I have published short stories in the anthologies Siglo que sueña. Narrativa mexicana actual de imaginación fantástica; El espejo de Beatriz, vol. II and Acapulco en su tinta II, among others, and in the magazine Este País, where I was a columnist for five years.
Alejandro von Düben
(Chapala, Jalisco, 1988). Es licenciado en letras hispánicas por parte de la Universidad de Guadalajara y, actualmente, estudiante de la maestría en literatura hispanoamericana por parte de la Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP).
Fue ganador de los Juegos Florales de Zapotlán El Grande 2014, el concurso de cuento Alfredo Velasco Cisneros 2015, el Premio Nacional de Poesía Francisco González León 2015, el Premio Internacional de Poesía Infantil FOEM 2017, el Concurso Nacional de Literatura para Niños y Niñas 2018 en poesía, seleccionado en la Convocatoria Nacional de Literatura Infantil y Juvenil Alas de Lagartija 2021, así como del Tercer Premio Nacional de Novela Juvenil Universo de Letras 2022 y —por la novela Clara como un fantasma—del Premio al Mejor Libro Juvenil del Banco del Libro de Venezuela 2023. Becario del Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y Desarrollo Artístico (PECDA) Jalisco 2016-2017 en la categoría de Jóvenes Creadores en Poesía, en el periodo 2020-2021 en literatura infantil, y en el periodo 2022-2023 en novela. También becario en 2017-2018 por la Secretaría de Cultura de Jalisco para conmemorar el centenario del natalicio de Juan Rulfo, donde escribió una tesis en torno a la obra rulfiana.
Autor de un libro de cuentos: Dar a luz (Editorial Serpiente de Papel, 2017), un libro de poesía: Los poemas de la noche insomne (PuertAbierta Editores, 2017) dos libros de poesía infantil: 20 poemas para construir una casa (FOEM, 2018) y Palabras como de otro mundo (Alas de Lagartija, 2022), y una novela: Clara como un fantasma (UNAM, 2022).
Other activities involving the participant:
Ciudad y Naturaleza José Emilio Pacheco Award
¡Al ruedo! Eight Mexican talents
Alberto Chimal
(Toluca, México, 1970) es escritor y profesor de escritura creativa. Entre otros reconocimientos, en 2002 obtuvo el Premio Nacional de Cuento y en 2014 el Premio de Narrativa Colima, otorgados por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes; en 2013 su novela La torre y el jardín fue finalista del Premio Internacional de Novela Rómulo Gallegos; en 2019 su libro para niños La Distante recibió el premio internacional de la Fundación Cuatrogatos, y en 2021 su novela juvenil La noche en la zona M ganó el premio internacional del Banco del Libro. Otras de sus obras son las novelas Los esclavos (2009) y La visitante (2022); una veintena de libros de cuentos, de los que el más reciente es La saga del Viajero del Tiempo (2021); los guiones de las películas 7:19 (2016), dirigida por Jorge Michel Grau, y Confesiones (2022), dirigida por Carlos Carrera; y Funeral, una historia ilustrada por Rulo Valdés que forma parte de la novela gráfica Batman: El Mundo (2021), publicada por DC Comics. Textos suyos se han traducido a una docena de idiomas y han aparecido en antologías internacionales.
Other activities involving the participant:
The Pleasure of Reading Galas
International Storytellers Conference
International Storytellers Conference
A slow-burn process: from book to film
Started as a Story and Ended as a Novel. The Art of Narrating
Saturday December 02
19:00 to 19:50
Salón 3, planta baja, Expo Guadalajara