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Ricardo Villanueva Lomelí Rector General Héctor Raúl Solís Gadea Vicerrector Ejecutivo Guillermo Arturo Gómez Mata Secretario General Juan Manuel Durán Juárez Rector del Centro Universitario de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades Karla Alejandrina Planter Pérez Rectora del Centro Universitario de Los Altos
Luis Gustavo Padilla Montes Rector del Centro Universitario de Ciencias Económico Administrativas José Francisco Muñoz Valle Rector del Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud Ruth Padilla Muñoz Rectora del Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierías Ángel Igor Lozada Rivera Melo Coordinador General de Extensión y Difusión Cultural
Raúl Padilla López Presidente
Dania Guzmán Torres Coordinadora de Diseño y Ambientación
Marisol Schulz Manaut Directora General
Adrián Lara Santoscoy Coordinador de Montaje
Militza Ledezma Aldrete Directora de Operaciones
Carolina Tapia Luna Coordinadora de Programación
Laura Niembro Díaz Directora de Contenidos
Yolanda Herrera Paredes Coordinadora de Viajes e Itinerarios
Ma. del Socorro González García Administradora general
Isabel Islas Cervantes Coordinadora de Difusión
Mariño González Mariscal Coordinador general de Prensa y Difusión
Mónica Rosete García Coordinadora de Alimentos y Bebidas
Armando Montes de Santiago Coordinador general de Expositores
Miriam Arias García Coordinadora de Recursos Humanos
Rubén Padilla Cortés Coordinador general de Profesionales
Leticia Cortés Navarro Coordinadora de Ventas Nacionales
Bertha Mejía Vázquez Coordinadora general de Patrocinios
Erika Jiménez Novela Coordinadora de Crédito y Cobranza
Ana Luelmo Álvarez Coordinadora general de FIL Niños
Elena Mondragón Villegas Contadora general
Ana Teresa Ramírez de Alba Productora Foro FIL
Lourdes Rodríguez de la Torre Coordinadora de Protocolo
Leonardo Ureña Bailón Coordinador de Tecnologías de la Información
Angélica Gabriela Villaseñor Rivera Coordinadora de Ventas Área Internacional
Dirección General: Alejandro Márquez Hernández, Luis Ángel Márquez Arrellano, José Luis Martínez González, Mariela Cruz Mena Mundo, David Unger Operaciones: Mayra Azucena Martínez Salazar, Judith Morales Moreno, Yolanda Peguero López Administración: Iliana Paola Arellano González, Nancy Guadalupe Cruz Nieto, Manuel Alberto Delgado Siordia, Alejandra González Moreno, Laura Susana García Pérez, Gisela Alondra Rivera Preciado, Bernardo Sahagún Torres, Blanca Esthela Valdez Padilla, Patricia Lorena Valentán Gómez Contenidos: María Daniela Ascencio Casillas, Melina Flores Hernández, Lucila Jáuregui Rosales, Araceli López Alvarado, Itzel Estefanía Sánchez Hernández Protocolo: Noemí Aguirre Garza Diseño y Ambientación: Francisco Javier Ojeda Álvarez, Erika Rivera Íñiguez Prensa y Difusión: Juan Manuel Alatorre García, Jessica Cano Lule, Areli Belén Martín Orozco, Josué Enrique Nando Durán Tecnologías de la Información: Noe Davila Leandro, José Antonio Mercado González Patrocinios: José Rafael Sánchez Hinojosa FIL Niños: Mario Carreón, Francisco Javier Rodríguez Sáinz Expositores: Abigaíl Corrales Pérez Profesionales: Jazmín Vianett Martín Orozco, Viridiana Vázquez Hernández, Magdalena Zapata Pérez Servicios de Viajes: Mónica López Bravo, Aranzazú Soledad Meza Macías Alimentos y Bebidas: Fátima Arana Gómez Montaje: Felipe Díaz Sedano, Jessica Elizabeth Navarro Tinajero, Raúl Ramírez Galván, Carlos Alberto Padilla Rojas, Johan Kevin Silva Reos, Luis Alberto Velázquez López, David Velázquez Rodríguez.
FIL: una celebración que no claudica Son ya 35 años desde que se gestó la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, por iniciativa de la máxima casa de estudios de Jalisco, y desde entonces se ha convertido en el encuentro literario hispano de mayor trascendencia a escala mundial. El año 2020 ha sido uno de los más complejos de la era moderna, a causa de la pandemia global. Durante casi dos años, este suceso ha sacudido al mundo cambiando de forma radical la vida como la conocíamos y, por supuesto, los encuentros socioculturales no fueron la excepción. En medio de la incertidumbre, y gracias a la inagotable labor de todos quienes forman parte de este encuentro literario, en la FIL recibimos con honor el reconocimiento del Premio Princesa de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades, uno de los galardones más prestigiosos en los ámbitos científico, técnico, cultural, social y humanitario. Esta distinción fue un aliciente para responder con firmeza ante una situación que hizo descollar nuestra capacidad de reacción y adaptación para hacer frente a esta contingencia sanitaria, razón por la cual la FIL, en su edición 2020, se presentó en un formato inédito, donde los ojos de los cinco continentes se volvieron hacia Guadalajara para disfrutar de nuestra Feria por las distintas plataformas virtuales. Hoy, un año después, somos afortunados de volver a vernos, recorrer pasillos repletos de ejemplares y asistir a charlas y conferencias con grandes autores de la literatura universal. Por segunda ocasión en la historia de esta fiesta literaria, la FIL recibe con mucho orgullo a Perú como país Invitado de Honor, lo que significa un deleite para los tapatíos por albergar a una nación pluriétnica y multilingüe con una riqueza cultural extraordinaria, con la que México tiene tantas similitudes y comparte una riquísima tradición literaria. La unión de estos dos países en esta edición afianza nuestra hermandad en un año en el que ambas naciones celebran importantes acontecimientos históricos. La cultura contrarresta la violencia y la marginación, y en ella se pueden sentar las bases para la recomposición del tejido social, quizá como una forma de inoculación a los efectos de un mundo trémulo o como un incentivo para imaginar de formas creativas mejores futuros. En este tenor, es preciso apuntar que históricamente la FIL ha sido un estandarte de la cultura iberoamericana en sus múltiples disciplinas, un aliciente que ha contribuido a la exaltación y promoción de los valores humanos y el respeto de los individuos y de las sociedades. Conseguir la materialización de un encuentro como este, es el fruto de una colaboración entusiasta de múltiples personas e instituciones. Que tales esfuerzos se mantengan aun en las difíciles circunstancias actuales, es sólo explicable por el poder que los libros tienen para alentar en nosotros el compromiso con las mejores y más preciadas causas. Es grato ver que este compromiso no ha cejado, y múltiples voluntades siguen convergiendo en el apoyo para realizar la mayor celebración literaria y del pensamiento del mundo hispano.
Raúl Padilla López Presidente
El entusiasmo de los lectores aplaca el abismo de la pandemia en la FIL La feria literaria de Guadalajara cumple con sus expectativas a pesar de un aforo reducido
Un actor disfrazado de Tastuán en los pasillos de la Feria del Libro de Guadalajara, esta semana.HECTOR GUERRERO CAMILA OSORIO/DAVID MARCIAL PÉREZ/JOSÉ PABLO CRIALES/CONSTANZA LAMBERTUCCI
Guadalajara (México)
La edición número 35 de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara, el encuentro más grande del sector en español, acaba este domingo y fue – como una persona de 35 que se despidió de sus veintes y prepara la calma de sus cuarentas– un poco más sobria y un poco más cómoda.
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El aforo, para empezar, fue más reducido de lo normal para disminuir la posibilidad de contagio del coronavirus: 251.900 asistentes a diferencia de los 828.266 que visitaron la feria en 2019; 1.223 editoriales presentes, comparadas a las 2.417 que asistieron hace dos años; 3.278 profesionales del libro –como editores, libreros, agentes literarios– comparado a los 18.906 del pasado. Una reducción considerable y que implica mucho más espacio para los lectores, pero también menos ingresos para la FIL Guadalajara. Como lo explicó hoy el presidente del evento, Raúl Padilla, aunque en esta edición la FIL logró mantener el 70% de sus patrocinadores, y ajustó sus gastos para un costo total de 105 millones de pesos mexicanos (alrededor de 5,6 millones de dólares), no recuperó la totalidad de la inversión: recuperaron 87 millones de pesos (alrededor de 4,6 millones de dólares), lo que deja un déficit de 18 millones para el próximo año. La FIL se financia en gran parte con la venta de stands, o locales, a decenas de editoriales en el espacio conocido como EXPO Guadalajara. Pero, como explicó Padilla, tras año y medio de crisis económica por la pandemia, “tuvimos que solidarizarnos con la industria editorial, nacional y mundial, para que pudieran venir, haciéndoles importantes descuentos”. El próximo año, añadió, esperan que la presencialidad regrese al 100%. Quizás con ella vuelvan todos los stands, y sus ingresos también.
Asistentes a la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara el día 04 de diciembre de 2021.ROBERTO ANTILLON
La FIL, a pesar del déficit, se mantuvo como la gran fiesta del libro. Con autores como Paul Auster, Jonathan Franzen, Cristina Rivera Garza o Isabel Allende como estrellas en la virtualidad (18 millones de lectores alrededor del mundo se conectaron los eventos por redes sociales), los
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platos fuertes de la FIL se sirvieron en español. Este periódico recorrió la feria junto al cubano Leonardo Padura y el mexicano Antonio Ortuño; recordó con el nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez las aventuras revolucionarias de Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez y otros de sus amigos del boom; y se sentó junto al exvicepresidente boliviano Álvaro García Linera para pensar un mundo tras la pandemia. Hubo representantes de 37 países, conciertos, obras de teatro, homenajes a escritoras que transforman la historia de la literatura –Diamela Eltit, Margo Glantz, Fernanda Trías– presentaciones de libros y encuentros entre autores y chicos de las preparatorias de Guadalajara. Así fue el cumpleaños número 35 de la FIL Guadalajara: Un homenaje a Almudena Grandes El primer acto oficial de la FIL, la entrega del premio de Literatura en Lenguas Romances a la chilena Diamela Eltit, empezó con un minuto de silencio en recuerdo a la escritora Almudena Grandes, fallecida ese sábado. Una década antes, la autora madrileña había recibido allí el premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz a la mejor novela publicada en español por una mujer, por Inés y la alegría. Tras la noticia de su muerte, la FIL improvisó una mesa para homenajear a la autora de Las edades de Lulú y recordar su obra con periodistas, narradores y lectores. Por los pasillos de la feria, sus compañeros escritores y editores la recordaron como “una mujer brava”, “una voz abierta, innovadora”, “con sentido del humor”, “una mujer entrañable que retrató la España gris”. En el puesto del grupo Planeta, donde publicaba bajo el sello Tusquets, se destinó un espacio a sus libros. “Las historias que nos regalaste durarán por siempre”, decía un cartel junto a su obra. Mascarillas y fenómenos adolescentes Las mascarillas obligatorias hicieron esta vez muy difícil identificar a los autores o políticos caminando por los enormes locales de Random House o Planeta, para pedirles un autógrafo o hacerles un reclamo. “Me sigue pareciendo sorprendente mirar a las personas de ojos para arriba, con la mitad de la cara, y casi que ver una cara completa hasta te parece ofensivo”, contó a El PAÍS la escritora Alma Delia Murillo, autora de Cuentos de Maldad (y uno que otro maldito). “Yo creo que es un fenómeno que no hemos calibrado lo suficiente, y es lo que para mí es más extraño”. Aunque ningún cubrebocas impidió que una escritora joven como Flor Salvador hiciera colapsar el tráfico de asistentes ni que la Guardia Nacional tuviera que mandar refuerzos por la charla del
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expresidente español Rodríguez Zapatero. Hay personas que, a pesar de las mascarillas, difícilmente pasan desapercibidas.
Un grupo de jóvenes con cubrebocas espera afuera de una firma de libros de la influencer y escritora Flor Salvador.GLADYS SERRANO
La sombra de la variante ómicron La misma semana en que comenzó la feria, científicos sudafricanos detectaron una nueva variante del coronavirus que preocupó a la Organización Mundial de la Salud (OMS) porque presenta un altísimo número de mutaciones. Países como Estados Unidos o Israel, o la Unión Europea cerraron las fronteras a viajeros del sur de África ante la aparición de la variante ómicron. Pero en México, el presidente Andrés Manuel López Obrador lo minimizó. “No hay motivos para preocuparnos”, dijo el mandatario. Los organizadores de la feria aseguraron este domingo que no tuvieron que tomar medidas especiales contra la nueva cepa a pesar de que una parte de los visitantes había llegado de países donde se habían detectado casos –el viernes se conoció el primer caso en México–. “Fue previamente cuando tuvimos más problemas porque menos expositores viajaron este año por el miedo al cierre de fronteras”, aclaró Marisol Schulz. “Además, nosotros no podemos imponer medidas que el propio Gobierno no impone”, añadió. La directora de la FIL indicó que, además de las tomas de temperatura y los baños sanitizantes, durante la semana se hicieron 2.649 pruebas aleatorias de covid-19 en el ferial y que “todas resultaron negativas”. “La gente ha entendido y nos ha apoyado con los protocolos”, aseguró. Según sus datos, el 78% de los visitantes contaba con una dosis o con el esquema completo de vacunación.
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Menos parranda y más música peruana En la FIL se cumplió el dicho de que menos, a veces, es mejor. Menos ruidoso y más tranquilo. Sí, fueron menos fiestas nocturnas, pero no faltó la música ni la euforia que este año corrió por cuenta de la música de Perú, el país invitado este año. “Nunca/ pero nunca/ me abandones cariñito”, cantó el grupo de cumbia psicodélica Los Mirlos en la noche del miércoles, cuando llenó el foro de la Feria y puso a bailar incluso a los transeúntes que se quedaron fuera del concierto.
Transeúntes a las afueras de la feria, podían observar el concierto de Renata Flores.HECTOR GUERRERO
“Por un lado, hay algo muy festivo de volver a encontrarnos, de volver a vernos en persona, que creo que siempre es muy distinto al encuentro en pantallas”, dijo la escritora mexicana Jazmina Barrera, quien presentó este año su novela Punto de Cruz. “Y, por otro, creo que hay algo medio solemne, triste incluso, de reconocer todas las pérdidas que ha habido en este tiempo, y además muy sobrio porque la FIL está ahora más tranquila que de costumbre”.
La feria es para los jóvenes La vuelta de la feria a la presencialidad también puso a rodar la literatura por la ciudad. Decenas de escritores recorrieron la periferia de Guadalajara visitando escuelas, charlando con alumnos y respondiendo sus preguntas.
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EL PAÍS acompañó a la argentina Dolores Reyes, autora de Cometierra y a la ecuatoriana Mónica Ojeda, que el año pasado publicó Las voladoras. Ambas defendieron la lectura y la escritura como un lugar para cultivarse. “Cuando yo iba a la preparatoria los escritores eran seres de bronce, no eran cuerpos y no hablaban con nosotros”, explicó Reyes a los alumnos de la Preparatoria 16. “Eso hizo que tardara años en pensar que yo también podía contar una historia”. “La experiencia de la lectura también es goce”, dijo la guayaquileña en la Preparatoria 14, “y los mejores libros no son aquellos que uno lee sin notarlo, sino los que atrapan sin importar cuántos se hayan cerrado antes”. Adiós Perú, hola Sharjah El país invitado, Perú, llegó con cierta polémica por la desbandada de un puñado de miembros de su delegación. Una decena de autores decidió renunciar como protesta por los cambios del Gobierno en la lista final en el último momento, que incorporó a más escritores de regiones pero dejó fuera a narradoras como Katya Adaui, Karina Pacheco y Gabriela Wiener, reconocidas por su obra y por sus posiciones feministas. El año que viene será el turno de una de las siete ciudades de los Emiratos Árabes Unidos, que en 2019 fue anunciada para 2020, pero la pandemia la empujó hasta 2022. Sharjah es una monarquía hereditaria de rasgos totalitarios declarada capital mundial del libro hace dos años por la Unesco, sede de la feria más grande de Oriente Medio y con unas arcas repletas de petrodólares.
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At Guadalajara: Spain’s Publishers Present a 41-House Collective Stand In News by Porter Anderson November 27, 2021
Spanish publishers cite Mexico as their primary Latin American market, as they arrive at the Guadalajara International Book Fair.
Chilean author Diamela Eltit receives the 2021 FIL Award for Literature in the Romance Languages at the opening event of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, November 27. Image: University of Guadalajara, FIL Guadalajara, Paula Islas
By Porter Anderson, Editor-in-Chief | @Porter_Anderson
Overall: 225 Exhibitors From 27 Countries
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s the 35th Guadalajara International Book Fair opens today
(November 27) to run through December 5 in Mexico, the Federación de Gremios Editores de España—FGEE, the Federation of Publishing Guilds in Spain—is announcing that its collective stand represents the work of 41 publishing houses in Spain.
The leadership of the federation is emphasizing is members’ pleasure in the fact that a physical fair is being staged by director Marisol Schulz this year, following the digital evocation of the show last year amid the pre-vaccination period of the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The federation’s publishers, according to the offices in Madrid, are eager, not surprisingly, to display their work to the Ibero-American markets. In addition to the 41 publishing houses represented by the stand, there are to be 67 “other publishing labels” operating from their own stands or from those of other institutions, which include the Guild of Euskadi Editors, the Generalitat of Catalonia, or the Association of Cultural Magazines of Spain. Overall, the fair’s organizers anticipate 255 exhibitors from 27 countries and a presentation of as many as 240,000 books. Peru is the fair’s guest of honor market this year. The Guadalajara International Book Fair is produced by the University of Guadalajara, and during the fair week, events in music, cinema, theater, and the visual arts are staged in various parts of the city.
The Guadalajara Fair and Spain’s Publishing Industry
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At the opening event of the 2021 Guadalajara International Book Fair, November 27. Image: University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara FIL, Bernardo De Niz
At the Guadalajara International Book Fair’s opening today (November 27), the kind of socio-political dynamics felt so strongly in many markets’ publishing communities was evident with Chilean author, critic, and feminist Diamela Eltit given the FIL Award for Literature in Romance Languages. She issued a warning in her acceptance speech that national cultures should “avoid the extreme right.” Her comments, of course, reflected the first-round win on November 21 of Chile’s far-right presidential candidate José Antonio Kast. “I’ve always stood on the left side of the road,” she told the event’s audience. “Today, the energy of the extreme right is striving to rule Chile. … We are working hard to prevent a rapacious government.” La Feria Internacional del Libro, FIL, de Guadalajara is a publicfacing book fair, rather than a trade show, although it has a robust professional program attached to it, directed by Rubén Padilla. And in their discussion of the Spanish presence at Guadalajara, the federation’s publishers say that their overall export activity under the conditions of the still-ongoing pandemic saw a 26-percent drop
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in 2020, for a value of €391.8 million (US$443.5 million), by comparison to a 2019 valuation of €529.9 million (US$599.8 million). In those calculations, the federation sees 86.3 percent of the export downturn being centered in books from the publishing sector, while 13.7 percent of that downturn was related to print, per se, involving a wider range of products than books.
Rubén Padilla
Despite these data points, the federation reports that in 2020, Latin America “was the main market for the [Spanish] book sector, with €184 million in sales,” US$208.3 million. Following that, the markets of the European Union were in the lead in 2020 for Spain’s exports, at €126.6 million (US$143.3), with 60.4 percent of that corresponding to the publishing rather than print sector, a valuation of €78.8 million (US$89.2 million). Adding in the United Kingdom and other non-EU aligned countries, the total for 2020 in Spain’s exports comes to €181.5 million (US$205.5 million). Trade with markets on other continents in 2020 came to 18 percent of the total export volume in 2020. In Latin America, the main recipients of Spain’s book exports, in descending order of volume, are:
Mexico
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Argentina Chile Colombia
In Spain itself, the book publishing industry is valued at more than €4 billion (US4.5 billion), and is reported to employ more than 30,000 people. The federation represents some 800 publishing companies, which is rated at 97 percent of the sector. During 2020, despite pandemic conditions, the industry produced a reported 181 million book copies and more than 73,000 titles in print and digital formats.
The Coronavirus in Mexico
The traditional ribbon-cutting, annually part of the Guadalajara International Book Fair’s opening events, this year is performed at Guest of Honor Peru’s pavilion. Image: University of Guadalajara, FIL Guadalajara, Melinda Llamas
At this writing, the 7:22 a.m. ET (1222 GMT) update of the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center sees 74,071 cases on a rolling 28-day basis in Mexico’s population of 129 million, with 5,338 fatalities, also on that rolling 28-day basis. During the full run of the pandemic, Mexico has reported a total 3,882,792 cases and 293,859 deaths.
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The New York Times’ international tracking map shows 51 percent of the Mexican population fully vaccinated, 60 percent with one dose. The state of Jalisco, in which Guadalajara is set, is among the regions of the country with the lowest COVID figures, reporting a daily new-case average of 68 cases, compared to the national average of 3,001 cases. This puts it at less than one case per 100,000 people, and that indicator has remained flat for 14 days. Average deaths are at 9.1, or .12 per 100,000 people. In an update, Reuters Mexico City has reported on November 28 that Mexico’s deputy health secretary, Hugo Lopez Gatell, has said that “restricting travel or closing borders are of little use in response to the emergence of the new ‘omicron’ coronavirus variant.’ “‘It has not been shown to be more virulent or to evade the immune response induced by vaccines,’ he said in a Twitter post on Saturday.”
Marisol Schulz, director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair, at a new exhibition from the show’s 2021 guest of honor, Peru. Image: FIL Guadalajara, Eva Becerra
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Sharjah named guest of honour for 2022 Guadalajara International Book Fair The Mexican book fair is one of the most significant cultural events in Latin America
Ahmed Al Ameri, second from left, president of Sharjah Book Authority, during the closing ceremony of the 35th Guadalajara International Book Fair, where Sharjah was announced the 2022 guest of honour. EPA
Sophie Prideaux Dec 9, 2021
Sharjah will be the official guest of honour for the 36th Guadalajara International Book Fair in 2022. The honour was awarded to the emirate in celebration of Emirati and Arab culture and its prominent authors, writers and intellectuals.
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The title, which recognises Sharjah’s numerous cultural projects, will make it the first emirate to represent Emirati and Arab culture at a book fair in Mexico. Ahmed Al Ameri, chairman of Sharjah Book Authority, received the title from Manuel Gerardo Talavera, ambassador of Peru, which was this year’s guest of honour, during a ceremony at the conclusion of the festival. The Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) is one of the most significant cultural events in Latin America and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Mexico and the region each year. Sharjah has been a participant at the event for more than a decade and is the only representative of Arab culture in South America. "Under the directives and guidance of Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Supreme Council Member and Ruler of Sharjah, the emirate has been leading cross-cultural communication with nations across the world, introducing the Arab culture and literature, and highlighting the distinguished Emirati works,” said Al Ameri. “Today, it is enough to say, 'We are from Sharjah,' as the emirate has become a synonym for books, literature and knowledge internationally. “Participating in FIL 2022 as guest of honour is an opportunity to introduce Latin America to Emirati and Arab cultures, especially as there has been an overwhelming interest amongst Spanish-speaking visitors to know more about Arab literature and its prominent intellectuals." As the 2022 guest of honour, Sharjah will present a vibrant cultural programme featuring seminars and discussions, showcase traditional Emirati art and craft, traditional shows presenting traditional Emirati song and dance, and highlight the Arabic culture through various art forms. It will also hold talks with Mexican authors, publishers and intellectuals, and organise meetings with publishers from across Latin America to exchange expertise. Raul Padilla Lopez, president of FIL, said: "With Sharjah’s presence as guest of honour at FIL 2022, we are looking forward to highlighting the rich Arabic culture and the valued diverse heritage of the region to our audiences here."
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Sharjah receives ‘Guest of Honour’ title for Guadalajara International Book Fair 2022
Sharjah has become a synonym for books, literature, and knowledge: Al Ameri Published: December 08, 2021 16:33Gulf News Report
Ahmed bin Rakkad Al Ameri, Chairman, Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), during the ceremony in Mexico to receive Sharjah Guest of Honour title.Image Credit: Supplied
Sharjah: Sharjah has received the official ‘Guest of Honour’ title for the 36th edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL 2022) being held in November 2020, in celebration of Emirati and Arab culture and its eminent authors, writers and intellectuals.
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As the first city to represent Emirati and Arab culture at a book fair in Mexico, the Guest of Honour status also recognises the achievements of the emirate’s prestigious cultural project. Guest of Honour award Ahmed bin Rakkad Al Ameri, Chairman, Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), received the title from Manuel Gerardo Talavera, Ambassador of the Republic of Peru, during a ceremony held at the conclusion of the 35th edition of FIL in the presence of Raúl Padilla López, President of FIL; Marisol Schulz Manaut, General Director of FIL; and a host of authors, publishers, and media personalities. Peru is the Guest of Honour at the 2021 edition of the Guadalajara International Book Fair. The Guadalajara International Book Fair is the most important cultural event of its kind in Latin America and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors from across Mexico and the region. Sharjah has been a participant at FIL for a decade and is the only representative of Arab culture in South America. Distringuished Emirati works Ahmed Al Ameri said: “Under the directives and guidance of His Highness Sheikh Dr. Sultan bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council and Ruler of Sharjah, the emirate has been leading cross-cultural communication with nations across the world, introducing the Arab culture and literature, and highlighting the distinguished Emirati works. Today, it is enough to say: we are from Sharjah, as the emirate has become a synonym for books, literature, and knowledge internationally.”
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He added: “Participating in FIL 2022 as Guest of Honour is an opportunity to introduce Latin America to Emirati and Arab cultures, especially as there has been an overwhelming interest among Spanish-speaking visitors to know more about Arab literature and its prominent intellectuals.” He continued: “In Sharjah, we believe that relationships built on a foundation of books, arts, and knowledge between two cultures, two countries, and two civilisations have a profound impact and historic value that transcends time.” As the FIL 2022 Guest of Honour, Sharjah will present a vibrant cultural programme featuring seminars and discussions, showcase traditional Emirati art and craft, in addition to traditional shows presenting traditional Emirati song and dance, and highlighting the Arabic culture through various art forms.
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Ahmed bin Rakkad Al Ameri, Chairman, Sharjah Book Authority (SBA), received the title from Manuel Gerardo Talavera, Ambassador of the Republic of Peru, during a ceremony in Mexico.
For his part, Raúl Padilla López; President of FIL, said: “With Sharjah’s presence as Guest of Honour at FIL 2022, we are looking forward to highlighting the rich Arabic culture and the valued diverse heritage of the region to our audiences here. Sharjah is the best symbolic representative of the culture and identity of the vast Arab world, and its presence will enrich the book fair, support the cultural exchange between us and the Arab nations, and pave the way for constructive dialogues between Mexican and Arab intellectuals and writers.” Cultrual contribution Manuel Gerardo Talavera, Ambassador of Peru to Mexico, said: “We are delighted to meet Sharjah here in Mexico and appreciate the immense cultural contributions undertaken by the emirate, under the directives of the Ruler of Sharjah, which has reinforced its leading status on the global cultural scene. The pioneering initiatives of the emirate has strengthened relations and cultural exchanges among nations.” He added: “FIL was a unique opportunity to showcase our culture and learn more about Emirati and Arab cultures through Sharjah’s participation. We are looking
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forward to meet again with the UAE in Peru to build on our relationship and forge new partnerships.” Coffee pot Al Ameri presented the Peruvian Ambassador with a traditional Emirati coffee pot and cups adorned with Tally patterns designed by the Irthi Contemporary Crafts Council. During its participation in FIL 2022, Sharjah will hold dialogues with Mexican authors, publishers, and intellectuals, and organise meetings with publishers from Latin America to exchange expertise and advance knowledge-based sectors.
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Guest of Honor Peru at Guadalajara: Overcoming a 30-Percent Pandemic Drop In Feature Articles by Adam CritchleyDecember 8, 20211 Comment
Before the pandemic, only 5 percent of Peru’s publishers and booksellers had carried out digital sales, says a member of the Peru delegation at Guadalajara International Book Fair.
At the Guest of Honor Peru pavilion in the center of the 2021 Guadalajara International Book Fair in Mexico. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson By Adam Critchley
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Dolores Cerna: ‘The Pandemic Has Had a Strong Effect’
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he Guest of Honor Peru delegation at last week’s Guadalajara International Book
Fair in Mexico comprised 110 publishers and around 50 authors, in addition to academics, visual artists, and musicians. The pavilion, set at the center of the fair’s exhibition floor, hosted debates, readings, an art exhibition, and a bookstore with some 30,000 titles on sale, offering visitors a sense for Peru’s contemporary and historical literary trends, its political and social history, and the range of its publishing industry.
Leonardo Dolores Cerna, director of books and reading at Peru’s ministry of culture, said he’d found the show “a great way to celebrate Peru’s centenary [July 28, 1821] and the stories and history that unite us.” In talking with Publishing Perspectives, Dolores Cerna said that Peruvian publishers’ and writers’ books left unsold at the fair will be transferred to the University of Guadalajara’s Carlos Fuentes Bookstore, which features free shipping in Mexico. Peru has had a stand at the Guadalajara fair since 2012, but its status as guest of honor status at this year’s fair was warmly welcomed by Peruvian publishers, Dolores Cerna said, with the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic having had a negative impact on book sales in their home market. “Until 2019,” he said, “we’d sustained growth in book production, with an increase of about 300 percent over 2002. But the pandemic has had a strong impact, with around a 30-percent drop in book production in 2020 compared with the previous year.”
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A Digital Acceleration in Peru
Leonardo Dolores Cerna, director of books and reading at Peru’s ministry of culture, at the 2021 Guadalajara International Book Fair guest of honor pavilion. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Adam Critchley
According to a study from the National Library of Peru, ISBN registrations in 2019 came to 8,158 titles, a 14.7-percent increase over 2008. But in 2019, only 1,045 titles were published in ebook format. That’s where the pandemic has had a positive effect, Dolores Cerna says–in what publishing professionals generally refer to as the “digital acceleration” seen triggered in so many markets by pandemic conditions. “Prior to the pandemic,” he said, “only 5 percent of publishers and booksellers in Peru had carried out digital sales. But now that number is growing, and in a survey we carried out this year, 70 percent of publishers said they’d begun to make moves toward digitization.” Dolores Cerna also stressed the importance of Peru’s pavilion concept including a forum for debate and for showcasing Peruvian authors, a place in which, “we’re broaching all themes to better understand the contemporary situation–not just in Peru but in Latin America as a whole. It’s this connection of stories and historical processes that unites us, and which involves books and reading”. In acknowledging the fair’s international profile, Dolores Cerna said, “The Mexican and United States markets are very important for us, as are France and Germany as well as markets much closer to home, such as Chile and Argentina. In those markets, translation isn’t necessary and we find there’s a connection with–and interest in–Peruvian literature.”
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Peru has seen a proliferation of independent publishers in the last decade, according to Teófilo Gutiérrez, the founder of the Lima-based poetry and prose publisher Hipocampo Editores.
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“When we founded the press in 1997,” Gutiérrez said, “there were four or five independent presses in Peru, and now we’re around 80. Publishing continued during the pandemic, and the pandemic even became a theme in books,” he said. “Tragedies like this help us continue believing in life.” Royer Capcha Quejías is the founding director of RCQ Editorial in southeastern Peru’s city of Cusco. “It’s important for us independent publishers,” he says, “to come to Guadalajara, which is the world’s most important Spanish-language fair and the best ‘shop window’ for us, so people can see what kind of books we’re publishing.”
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Those books include works in the social sciences and literature in both Spanish and Peruvian Indigenous languages. “Publishing in Indigenous languages is important,” he says, “and they must have a space in publishing. We want to raise the visibility of writers publishing in Indigenous languages from the Andean and Amazonian regions. “But another important aspect of coming to this fair,” he says, “is the professionalization of the Peruvian publishing sector. By being in contact with publishers from other countries, we can learn how they deal with writers and distribution and sales, and we can exchange information.”
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Dante González Rosales is the founding publisher of Pakarina Ediciones, a Limabased press that works in Peruvian indigenous languages. “There’s more interest among readers in Indigenous literature” he says, “and more publishers beginning to specialize in such languages, as well as more translation of works from Spanish into Indigenous languages,, which fosters diversity. “When you look at the statistics of the National Library of Peru,” he says, “with the publication of 36 books in Indigenous languages in 2019 from practically zero 10 years ago, we’ve made some progress. However, of a total of the 8,158 books published in 2019, only 0.68 percent were in Quechua, and 0.32 percent were in other Peruvian Indigenous languages. Together with foreign languages, they added up to 1 percent of the total. “It’s not that there are no opportunities,” González Rosales said, “but rather that we have to make those opportunities.”
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At the 2021 Guadalajara International Book Fair, visitors look at books in the Guest of Honor Peru pavilion. Image: University of Guadalajara, FIL Guadalajara, Pedro Andrés
The Coronavirus in Peru The impact of COVID-19 in Peru has been so severe that, as Jason Beaubien reported for NPR on November 27, the country is considered to have had the highest pandemic death rate in the world. A lack of medical resources–and the inability of a small, poor country to vie for those resources on the international market–created a scenario in which the collapse of a major oxygen-tank supplier in May appears to have precipitated the worst of the losses. The per-capita death rate is reported at nearly 6,000 deaths for every 1 million citizens, some 25 percent of whom live below the poverty line. Recent statistics show a far better picture in Peru, the seven-day average being tracked at 3,218 new cases per day–down from a peak in April of 5,626. At this writing, the 6:22 a.m. ET (1122 GMT) update of the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center sees on a 28-day rolling basis, 38,743 cases in Peru’s population of 32 million, with 981 fatalities. During the full run of the pandemic, Lima has reported a total 2,246,633 cases and 201,450 deaths.
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Latin America's women writers ride wave of acclaim Monday, 29 Nov 2021 9:15 PM MYT
Mexican writer Margo Glantz (right) receives the Carlos Fuentes medal from Mexican journalist Silvia Lemus on the second day of the Guadalajara International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico on Nov 28. Photo: AFP
From Uruguay to Mexico, Argentina to Ecuador, women writers from across Latin America are enjoying growing acclaim after years of marginalisation by an industry they say has long favoured male authors. They reject the label of a new "Latin American boom" like the one that thrust male writers such as Peru's Mario Vargas Llosa and Colombia's Gabriel Garcia Marquez to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Instead, they see their success as a welcome break from the prejudice that sidelined many of their predecessors during the 20th century. Last weekend, hundreds of writers, editors and literary agents gathered in Mexico's second city for the Guadalajara International Book Fair, considered one of the world's most important. PUBLICIDAD
Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trias received the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz Prize for her novel Mugre Rosa (Filthy Rose). The 20th-century Latin American boom elevated figures such as Garcia Marquez and Vargas Llosa, but also "made the great women writers of that time invisible," said Trias, 45. But things are changing. Her compatriot Cristina Peri Rossi won this year's Cervantes Prize, considered the most prestigious award in Spanish-language literature. Rather than a boom, Karina Pacheco of Peru prefers to speak of a "wonderful outpouring of women's voices." "They have been there, contained by a dam, by the prejudice that a woman will not write as well as a man," said Pacheco, 52, the author of El ano del viento (The Year Of The Wind). 'Intimate stories' Mexico's Guadalupe Nettel, winner of the 2014 Herralde Spanish literary prize for her novel Despues del invierno (After The Winter), sees underlying shifts in readers' tastes. Writers and readers alike are now inclined "much more towards subjectivities, minorities, the most intimate stories," she said.
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The Guadalajara International Book Fair will run until Dec 5, with Peru as this year's guest of honor. Photo: AFP
"And in that, women have always been the great narrators of everyday life, of the inner life," said the 48-year-old. Common themes explored by Latin American women writers include violence, fear and victimhood, as well as terror, supernatural or otherwise, said Maria Fernanda Ampuero, the Ecuadoran author of Pelea de Gallos (Cockfight). Shunning marriage or having children is another shared thread, since "we were on the streets more, more exposed... (to) the dangers of being a woman," added Ampuero, 45. Trias sees common themes of de-romanticising motherhood and "the different types of violence suffered by women's bodies." "Women's issues are issues of humanity," she said. 'Fight not won' Despite the changes, discrimination persists insofar as "everything that women produce is positioned as if it were female literature," and male literature is just literature, said Brazilian writer Djamila Ribeiro, 41.
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"There is a hierarchy," she said. The extent of progress is also uneven depending on the country. Pacheco regrets that in Peru there are not as many reviews of women's work as in Argentina or Spain.
Chilean writer Diamela Eltit delivers a speech after receiving the FIL Prize for Literature in Romance Languages on the first day of the Guadalajara International Book Fair on Nov 27. Photo: AFP
But "I'm not going to cry about this inequality. We denounce it and turn it into a challenge," she said. Striking a note of optimism, Nettel underlined that in 2014 she was only the third woman in 30 years to win the Herralde award - and since then, three others have received it. Although there are steps in the right direction, Trias warned that "the fight is not won in the least." "To think that at this moment we are on an equal footing is a bit naive," she said. It is as important as ever to be vigilant to ensure "that what has been won is not lost," Trias added.
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Ampuero sees the increased visibility of women thanks to international movements against gender violence such as "Me Too" as an important factor. There is also "a thirst to read other stories, to read about themselves in the stories," she added. But the bottom line, according to Nettel, is that women's writing sets a high standard and is capable of opening universes and little-explored conversations. "To get uncomfortable, you have to read women's literature," she said. - AFP
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La FIL híbrida: con lectores de regreso y muycrítica Fue visitada por 251 mil 900 personas; el emirato árabe Sharjah será el invitado de honor en la edición de 2022, del26 de noviembre al 4 de diciembre
Grandes pasillos, dos sedes, cierres para sanitizar fueron algunas de lasmedidas sanitarias. Fotos: Juan Boites/ EL UNIVERSAL. CULTURA 05/12/2021 22:56 Yanet Aguilar Sosa Actualizada 05:13
El retorno de la Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara (FIL) 2021 a lo presencial superó todas las expectativas. No sólo las que tenían que ver con los protocolos sanitarios para seguridad de los 225 mil visitantes
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que volvieron a recorrer los anchos pasillos de Expo Guadalajara para reencontrarse con los libros y los escritores, con todas las medidas sanitarias; también se superaron las expectativas económicas, según la Oficina de Visitantes y Convenciones de Guadalajara, la Feria generó una derrama económica de 700 millones de pesos, pero además los reportes de los editores señalan que durante la primera mitad de la feria vendieron entre 50 y 60% más que durante el mismo periodo de 2019. “No están viniendo los 850 mil, pero sí entre los que están viniendo seguramente son los más lectores y los más compradores del libro y que creo tenían ansia de adquirir libros y eso nos permite estar confiado en cómo manejar el déficit”, aseguró Raúl Padilla, presidente de la FIL al hacer el balance de la edición que concluyó el día de ayer con la participación de mil 223 editoriales de 37 países que ofertaron con 240 mil títulos, en una edición, que como la de 2020 que fue virtual, pasará a la historia porque se realizó en medio de la pandemia por el Covid-19, que implicó reducción de espacios y participantes, en alrededor del 40%. Pero no sólo fue distinta en su concepción y realización pues como nunca antes se llevó a cabo con estrictas medidas sanitarias: no sólo en la exigencia del uso permanente de cubrebocas, gel antibacterial y filtros de desinfección con rociadores con un aroma a orégano que llevaron a los asistentes a calificarla como una feria con aroma a pozole y a tequilapor el gel con olor a alcohol. También pasará a la historia como una feria que contrario a los últimos años que cerraba con utilidades de entre 12 y 18 millones de pesos, esta edición 35 concluyó con un déficit de cerca de 18 millones de pesos que tardará entre una o dos ediciones más en subsanar. La razón fue clara desde el año pasado, el apoyo con un descuento del 30% para la compra de stands y renta de salones, y la cancelación de editoriales, sobre todo internacionales, provocaron déficit.
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La Feria, que concluyó ayer y que tuvo comoinvitado a Perú, representó una inversión de más de 105 millones 900 mil pesos pero tendrá ingresos apenas superiores a los 87 millones. Concluyó con la confianza de que en su edición de 2022 y a más tardar en la de 2023 ese déficit “podrá serabatido, amortizado, con el flujo del siguiente año, en razón del éxito que están teniendo las editoriales con su presencia”, dijo Padilla. Aseguró en conferencia de prensa que en un ejercicio de transparencia, el déficit en gran medida se debe a que sí, “tuvimos que solidarizarnos con la industria editorial nacional y mundial para que pudieran venir, haciéndoles importantes descuentos”, una industria a la que le fue muy bien, pues a decir de los propios editores, en el primer fin de semana de la Feria, tuvieron ventas 50 y hasta 60% más que en el mismo periodo de2019.
El primer fin de semana representó una recuperación para muchaseditoriales.
Fue una feria sin tumultos, más bien con accesos controlados, rara puesdurante los nueve días entre las dos y las cuatro de la tarde se cerraba
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para una desinfección profunda. Fue una edición en dos turnos, con accesos en cada uno de 12 mil 500 visitantes, con aforos al 50% en sus salones, sin cocteles, sin firmas de libros y presentaciones en stands; con cabinas para pruebas rápidas de Covid-19 y un área coordinada por el Centro Universitario de Ciencias de la Salud que realizó un total de 2 mil 649 pruebas aleatorias entre los visitantes, pero que todos reportaroncon “resultados negativos”. Una feria literaria, con la participación de 594 autores de 42 países entrelos que destacaron Diamela Eltit, Margo Glantz, Sergio Ramírez, Claudia Piñeiro, John Boyne, Abdelá Taia, Uxue Alberdi, Guillermo Arriaga, Mónica Ojeda y Antonio Ortuño, pero también con la participación en línea de autores como Joyce Carol Oates, Ken Follet, Paul Auster, Etgar Keret, Laura Restrepo y Jane Goodall, que en conjunto, entre los conversatorios virtuales y las transmisiones vía streaming, arrojaron más de 18 millones 739 mil 726 personas en 30 países que siguieron la Feria. La hibridez, modalidad que transcurre entre lo presencial y la virtualidad,llegó a la FIL para quedarse, tal como lo confirmó Raúl Padilla; comentó que lo virtual se ha convertido desde el año pasado en su principal ventana. En 2020, en la 34 edición de la FIL 21 millones de personas siguieron la feria, este año, con 70% de las actividades presenciales y con 30% virtuales, llegaron a 18 millones de personas. Fue una FIL también con un programa con alta carga de actividades políticas. Sin embargo, Raúl Padilla lo negó, dijo que sus orígenes fue una feria con alta dosis de pensamiento y con visitantes de las más diversas ideologías, y lo explica porque es una feria organizada por unaUniversidad, tal como la Feria de Minería o las que organizan universidades de México y América Latina.
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“Esta es una feria a donde se invita a expresar ideas, a expresar conocimiento, por eso desde la primera tiene un programa académico, que a lo largo de los años hemos tenido, invitamos a intelectuales a discutir y a debatir; no invitamos a políticos a hacer política, sino a dar su opinión sobre determinados fenómenos. Desde un principio venimos haciendo lo mismo; efectivamente, la crítica, el señalar ideas, el expresarlas pues, de tanto en tanto, incomoda al poder, como históricamente le ha incomodado al poder lo que desde una universidad se genera, el conocimiento, la crítica, es una de las obligaciones de una universidad. Eso molesta al poder; lo sentimos mucho, no lo hacemos con esa intención”, dijo Padilla. La Feria concluyó con una tradicional ceremonia en la que Perú entregó la estafeta al emirato árabe Sharjah que será el País Invitado de Honor de la 36 FIL Guadalajara; se realizará del 26 de noviembre al 4 de diciembre de 2022. Ayer cerró sus actividades con la presencia de 251 mil 900 asistentes –225 mil en la FIL, 35 mil visitantes de FIL Niños en la sede alterna del Centro Cultural Universitario; 2 mil 400 en salones del Hotel Hilton, y mil 200 personas que acudieron a actividades en centros universitarios--, nada comparable con los 850 mil asistentes de 2019, quees el último referente de esta 35 edición que fue otra pero fue la misma.
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DOMINGO 5 DE DICIEMBRE DE 2021
Emirato de Sharjah, invitado de honor de laFIL Guadalajara 2022 Se espera un mayor acercamiento con la cultura árabe
La cita será del 26 de noviembre al 4 de diciembre de 2022. Foto: Francisco Rodríguez | El Occidental
Viridiana Saavedra | El Occidental Una edición más de la Feria Internacional del Libro (FIL) de Guadalajara llegó a su fin y comenzarán los preparativos para recibir el próximo año al Emirato de Sharjah como invitado de honor. La cita en la edición 36 de la FIL de Guadalajara será del 26 de noviembre al 4 de diciembre de 2022, donde se espera un mayor acercamiento con la cultura árabe. “El 2020 debería haber sido el año de Sharjah en México, pero la pandemia de Covid-19 lo impidió. Hoy de nuevo, al recibir el estandarte de Perú, queremos decir lo orgullosos que estamos de ver a Sharjah con su cultura emiratí árabe reconocida como la invitada de honor en la FIL Guadalajara”, dijo Ahmed Al Ameri, Chairman of Sharjah Book Authority. Selección de prensa FIL 2021 | 53
Esto, porque en 2020, el año en que comenzó la pandemia por coronavirus, el Emirato de Sharjah estaba programado como invitado de honor a la feria, pero se pospuso su visita, ya que la edición 2021 fue completamente virtual. “Las oportunidades de comunicación e intercambio cultural nos abren a las culturas de las civilizaciones del mundo, pero lo que importa son los resultados y el impacto de esta comunicación… A pesar de que hoy hay dos continentes que nos separan, estamos más cerca de lo que podemos imaginar, y lo que nos une es mucho”. Se refirió además al idioma, los cuentos de las abuelas, la vestimenta, los platillos populares y los cánticos y canciones, como parte de la diversidad entre ambas naciones y se dijo ansioso por encontrar en la próxima FIL “mayor oportunidad para más encuentro, colaboraciones conjuntas hacia una perspectiva humana que nos una”. Por su parte, el presidente de la FIL de Guadalajara, Raúl Padilla López, agradeció a Perú su presencia durante nueve días del encuentro de las letras y la cultura y aplaudió la presencia de Sharjah en 2022. “La presencia de Sharjah nos dará una oportunidad única de acercarnos a expresiones que enriquecerán nuestro entendimiento… Por primera vez contaremos con un invitado de honor del mundo árabe, tengan la seguridad de que los recibiremos fraternalmente”. Recordó que Sharjah recibió a México como invitado de honor en su Feria del Libro en 2019 y ahora como anfitriones prepararán una edición única en 2022.
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Georgian literature set for first appearance at Guadalajara, Thesalloniki book fairs
Author Archil Kikodze, recognised for his writing on natural world and travel, will feature in two of the Georgian literary events at the Guadalajara fair. Photo via georgiasfantastictavern.com.
Agenda.ge, 26 Nov 2021 - 16:29, Tbilisi,Georgia Visitors to two international book fairs starting this week in Guadalajara, Mexico and Thessaloniki, Greece will for the first time learn about Georgian literature and authors as part of the events, with a selection of writers and literary project managers travelling set to represent the country. Celebrated authors of the Georgian scene - Archil Kikodze, Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili and Dato Turashvili - will speak at meetings with readers of the Mexican event between Sunday and December 5, following the opening occasion of the Georgian representation the previous day. The Saturday event will see Ninia Macharashvili of the project for the status of Tbilisi as the current UNESCO World Book Capital meet Martin Solares, her counterpart for Guadalajara's 2022 position for the honour, and Gerald Leitner, Secretary General of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. The three will talk about the UNESCO designation and its significance for cities. In the next day's meeting, Kikodze, Kordzaia-Samadashvili and Turashvili - three of the Georgian literary faces regularly introduced to readers and publishers in events across the
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world - will share their knowledge and thoughts around the contemporary literature from the country.
Ana Kordzaia-Samadashvili, recipient of Georgian literary prizes including Saba Literary Award and Iliauni Literary Prize for her work. Photo via literature.iliauni.edu.ge.
The topic of Tbilisi and Guadalajara as UNESCO World Book Capitals will again come up in the other talk hosted on the same day, where Kikodze and Solares will have a discussion, before Turashvili, Macharashvili and Writers' House of Georgia Director Natalia Lomouri host Spanish-language publishers on Monday to introduce the Georgian scene to them, in the closing event of the Georgian programme at the fair. A Georgian national stand will also host visitors in Guadalajara for the duration of the celebration of literature in the Mexican city - one of the principal international book fairs and the most significant one in the Spanish-speaking world. Halfway across the world, Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, will have its own programme for introducing prose, poetry and the overall literary scene of Georgia to visitors.
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Natalia Lomouri, Director of Writers' House of Georgia, will introduce the country's literary scene to Spanishlanguage publishers in Guadalajara alongside author Dato Turashvili and Tbilisi UNESCO World Book Capital project representative Ninia Macharashvili. Photo via OK! Magazine Georgia.
The presentations at the Thessaloniki International Book Fair will include the Greek edition of the popular novel Literary Express by author Lasha Bugadze on Friday, marking the launch of events involving Georgian representation at the occasion. The same day, Maia Danelia of Writers' House of Georgia will host Greek publishers in an introduction of the Georgian literature, while a separate presentation by Tamar Topuridze will review projects featured in Tbilisi's UNESCO World Book Capital project for listeners. On Saturday, a poetry collection by Paata Shamugia - translated and published in Greek language - will be unveiled in the closing event of the Georgian programme, with the talk moderated by translator Ekaterine Janashia. Similarly to the Mexican fair, a national stand will host those interested in Georgian culture and literature in Thessaloniki, with the latest editions and translations of the Georgian scene, paired with publications in Hellenistic studies of the Tbilisi State University Institute of Classical Philology, Byzantine and Neo-Greek Research.
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IPA’s Prix Voltaire Ceremony at Guadalajara: Grief, Outrage, Honor In Feature Articles by Porter AndersonNovember 30, 2021Leave a Comment
‘Tonight, Lokman and Lebanon are having a drink with Voltaire,’ the Prix Voltaire laureate Rasha Al Ameer tells her Guadalajara audience. She is the sister of the slain Lebanese publisher Lokman Slim.
The International Publishers Association (IPA) Prix Voltaire 2021 award ceremony closes with a standing ovation at the 35th Guadalajara International Book Fair. From left are Roberto Banchik, the director general of Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial in Mexico; the University of Guadalajara’s Raúl Padilla López; IPA vice-president Karine Pansa; Dar Al Jadeed publisher Rasha Al Ameer, winner of the Prix Voltaire; the Guadalajara International Book Fair director Marisol Schulz; the Mexican-American journalist Jorge Ramos; and IPA secretary general José Borghino. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson
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Al Ameer: ‘Having a Drink With Voltaire’
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n Guadalajara tonight (November 30), the 125-year-old International Publishers
Association (IPA) in association with the 35th Guadalajara International Book Fair, has formally conferred its 2021 Prix Voltaire on what may be the award’s most eloquent recipient yet.
The custom of the Prix Voltaire is to name the publishing house involved in an award. But Dar Al Jadeed‘s co-founder Rasha Al Ameer spoke with such grace, urgency, and bravery amid her palpable grief over the assassination of her brother and co-founder Lokman Slim, that the packed Juan Rulfo Auditorium at the book fair was transfixed. Al Ameer has a great deal to say to world publishing. Publishing Perspectives readers will recall that early this year, Frankfurter Buchmesse and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Germany’s publishers and booksellers association, issued a joint statement of shock and sadness at the news of Slim’s murder reported on February 4, writing, “The international publishing community mourns a fearless, outspoken, and committed fighter for the right to freedom of expression.” Juergen Boos, Frankfurt’s president and CEO traveled from Germany to be in the audience tonight for the ceremony. And he was one of the last to leave the Rulfo Auditorium this evening, staying close to Al Ameer, speaking to attendees. Slim’s body was found inside his car in Southern Lebanon, the village of Addoussieh. Reports, including that of Reuters Beirut, were of Slim being shot four times in the head and once in the back. He was, Reuters reported, 58, and Lebanese officials called the killing an assassination.
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Al Ameer: ‘Lokman and Lebanon Were Both Betrayed’
Prix Voltaire laureate Rasha Al Ameer’s image is projected onstage as she gives her acceptance speech, December 1, at Guadalajara International Book Fair. Raúl Padilla López and Karine Pansa listen as she speaks. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson
After the ceremony, Al Ameer told Publishing Perspectives that the authorities in Lebanon actually know the perpetrators of Slim’s death, but that in the longrunning collapse of Lebanon’s civil authority, the courts are unable to move on the case. Such events as Slim’s killing somehow are “protected,” she said. This means, of course, that in terms of normal legal recourse, the doors are slammed shut. She literally has no court of appeal.
“Voltaire is saying that it’s clear that an individual who persecutes a man, his brother—or his country—because he’s not of the same opinion or same values, is a monster.” Rasha Al Ameer
Lebanon itself and its leadership may have few spokespeople to match her. Al Ameer speaks in devastatingly strong, measured English about the cruel corruption perpetrated by her “tiny country’s” political apparatus and the associated political forces that the government itself has said were behind the murder of her brother.
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“Ladies and gentlemen,” Al Ameer said, after taking a long, aching breath at the podium and steadying herself when handed the certification of her award by IPA’s Karine Pansa, “tonight my brother and Lebanon share something. “They were both betrayed. Lebanon and Lokman. And their killing is not an ordinary crime. “Tonight, Lokman and Lebanon are having a drink with Voltaire. The three of them look at us and smile. Voltaire is saying it’s clear that an individual who persecutes a man, his brother—or his country—because he’s not of the same opinion or same values, is a monster.” The ease with which Al Ameer was able to cut down ideological intolerance and political violence, the Lebanese regime, and the nightmare of her brother’s loss made it clear that this small but powerful thinker is probably the most articulate Prix Voltaire laureate named yet. The award, as our readership knows, honors publishing valor in the face of oppression. Our coverage of the IPA Freedom to Publish committees selections is tracking the formation of a new pantheon of courage, raising to international visibility these publishing leaders who are hounded, persecuted, often jailed, and sometimes killed for publishing the truth, speaking to power, unmasking authoritarianism. The award carries a purse of 10,000 Swiss francs (US$10,760). Kristenn Einersson of Norway is the committed, longtime chair of the IPA’s Freedom to Publish committee and was unable to be in Guadalajara tonight, sorely missed. And this year, the committee opted to create a special award, in addition to the main award for Al Ameer and Dar Al Jadeed: IPA has honored the late Chinese author Li Liqun, whose pen name is Li Huizi. He was an Independent Chinese PEN Center member who took his own life on July 23.
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Ramos: ‘The Worst Censorship? When They Kill You’
Jorge Ramos gives the keynote address at the 2021 IPA Prix Voltaire ceremony at Guadalajara International Book Fair. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson
Followed worldwide for his unflinching reporting, the Miami-based Univision news anchor Jorge Ramos gave the ceremony’s keynote address, which would end with him tenderly saying to Rasha Al Ameer, onstage, “I do not exaggerate by saying that we are here because of your courage and that of your brother Lokman.”
“There is a beautiful word in Spanish that defines our job as journalists, editors, and publishers: contrapoder. We always have to be on the other side of power. And this means that, on many occasions, we have to take a stand.” Jorge Ramos
Ramos reminded the Guadalajara audience that he is a son of Mexico. He immigrated to the United States when the news medium he was working for in 1983 demanded he change a report to please the political powers of the moment. He refused and resigned, newly exposed to the treachery of censorship. A frequent commentator on CNN and other legitimate news outlets, Ramos has become a go-to expert on the Latin American political landscape. He reminded the crowd tonight that he had challenged both Donald Trump and Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in person. Trump had him removed from a press conference, and Maduro had him kicked out of Venezuela after a brief detention for him and his crew. He Selección de prensa FIL 2021 | 79
pointed out that his dual Mexican and United States passports may well have played a role in the fact that he was released. “You see,” Ramos said, “Trump and Maduro—leaders representing the extreme right and the extreme left—acted exactly the same way. Violently. Without tolerance. Lying shamelessly. Trying to impose their point of view. But our journalistic duty was to confront them both. “And this is important: behind me there was a news director and a company that always supported my work. Without them, I couldn’t have asked those questions. “There is a beautiful word in Spanish that defines our job as journalists, editors, and publishers: contrapoder,” Ramos said. “We always have to be on the other side of power. And this means that, on many occasions, we have to take a stand.” This, of course, is the position of a publisher, and Ramos, who delivered most of his comments in English, saved his most resonate fury for the disastrous track record that his native country Mexico holds, in terms of journalists’ killings. Switching into Spanish, Ramos told his own people, “Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist. “There are years in which more reporters have died in Mexico than in war zones. In 2020, Mexico was the most violent country on the planet for journalists, more so than Afghanistan, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. “And here,” unlike in the United States, his adopted home, “there is no government to protect them. Since 2000 until now, 145 journalists have been murdered in Mexico, according to the organization Article 19. And since López Obrador came to power, 25 press workers have been killed. Impunity is almost total; there are no arrests for most of these murders,” a comment that directly echoed what Al Ameer would tell us about the situation in Lebanon. “The most dangerous thing that can happen to us,” Ramos said, “is that we believe that this is normal, that we get used to it and that we do not press for things to change soon. This is not normal. It is not normal that journalists are killed in Mexico just for doing their job.
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“It is time that the murders of reporters stop being news,” Ramos said. “We cannot be neutral in this.” And this was his message, Al Ameer’s message, and the message of the International Publishers Association and its Prix Voltaire tonight: Those who publish, who work in truth for a living, whether in books or in journalism or in other sectors, simply cannot be neutral in this era when so many democratic principles are under attack in so many places, the freedom of speech and publication frequently being the first to go. “That’s what we do,” Ramos said before handing off to Al Ameer. “Doctors save lives. Architects and engineers build sustainable structures. And we ask tough questions. To the powerful.”
The 2021 Prix Voltaire Shortlist
International Publishers Association vice-president Karine Pansa explains the mission and scope of the IPA’s Prix Voltaire before presenting the 2021 honor to Rasha Al Ameer at Guadalajara International Book Fair. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson
As Publishing Perspectives readers will recall, the 2021 shortlist for the Prix Voltaire has been especially rich in talent and commitment, particularly with its inclusion of unnamed (for security) publishing houses experiencing harassment and danger under the Belarusian regime of authoritarian strongman Alexander Lukashenko. Selección de prensa FIL 2021 | 81
The complete shortlist:
Dar Al Jadeed, Lebanon Independent publishers, Belarus Mikado Publishing, Turkey Samir Mansour Bookshop, Gaza Raúl Figueroa Sarti, F&G Editores
As our readers know, F&G Editores of Guatemala City and its publisher Raúl Figueroa Sarti have won this year’s Freedom to Publish Award from the Association of American Publishers (AAP)—a member-publishing organization of the IPA.
The 2021 Prix Voltaire laureate, Dar Al Jadeed publisher Rasha Al Ameer at the podium in her acceptance remarks at Guadalajara International Book Fair. Image: Publishing Perspectives, Porter Anderson
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