Marisol Schulz receives the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz award

Mexico City. The Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL) “is that enormous dream where the thought, culture and literature of all nations converge, recognize each other and dialogue in a single language,” said Marisol Schulz, director of that editorial meeting. upon receiving the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize in Mexico City, the highest recognition granted by the University of the Claustro de Sor Juana.

The editor added that the fair is “one of the spaces for the defense of freedom of thought and expression, for respect for consciences.”

The Sor Juana Prize was established in 2005 and has been obtained by personalities and institutions from very diverse fields of knowledge, civil society and culture, which have contributed to cultural, social and humanistic development.

Among other figures who have received the distinction are María Dolores Bravo, Juan Manuel Silva, Carlos Monsiváis, Carmen Aristegui, Elena Poniatowska, Margo Glantz, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Leonora Carrington and the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

The Guadalajara International Book Fair was created in 1987 by Raúl Padilla López and at the initiative of the University of Guadalajara. In addition to this recognition, the FIL has received the Princess of Asturias Award in Communication and Humanities in 2020 and the award with the Order of Rio Branco from the Government of Brazil in 2022.

This year, the 38th edition of the meeting will take place from November 30 to December 8.

“An exemplary space where knowledge and ideas flow and increase our understanding, our understanding, our freedom,” said Carmen López Portillo, rector of the University of the Claustro de Sor Juana, when giving the maximum recognition of that house of studies to the Marisol Schulz, director of the editorial meeting.

Guadalajara International Book Fair, last Wednesday, April 10 in Mexico City, where he added that “it is a space that cultivates culture, wonder, discovery; It is one of the houses of the word, the ideal place for promoting our language and meeting different areas of knowledge.” The Sor Juana Prize, which has been awarded since 2005, went this year to the FIL “for its work in promoting reading and the Spanish-speaking publishing industry.”

Marisol Schulz Manaut, general director of the FIL Guadalajara, thanked the Sor Juana Cloister for the award and recognized the heritage that Raúl Padilla López (1954-2023) left in Ibero-America with this and other cultural initiatives. Schulz Manaut added that the Guadalajara International Book Fair “is that enormous dream where the thought, culture and literature of all nations converge, recognize each other and dialogue in a single language.

The FIL Guadalajara is that dream that someone dared to dream and that we inherited to continue building it.” The rector Carmen López Portillo also remembered Raúl Padilla López, who, she said, “had the vision and the will to create and grow” the FIL, “one of the spaces for the defense of freedom of thought and expression, of respect of consciencesThe Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize was established in 2005 and has been obtained by personalities and institutions from very diverse fields of knowledge, civil society and culture, which have contributed to cultural, social and humanistic development. Among other figures who have received the distinction are María Dolores Bravo, Juan Manuel Silva, Carlos Monsiváis, Carmen Aristegui, Elena Poniatowska, Margo Glantz, Juan Ramón de la Fuente, Leonora Carrington and the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

The Guadalajara International Book Fair was created in 1987 thanks to the vision of Raúl Padilla López and at the initiative of the University of Guadalajara. In addition to the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Award from the Claustro University, the FIL has received other distinctions such as the Princess of Asturias Award in Communication and Humanities in 2020 and the award with the Order of Río Branco from the Government of Brazil in 2022. This 2024, the 38th edition of the Fair will take place from November 30 to December 8.