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The FIL Literary Award in Romance Languages is awarded to writers of any genre of literature working in one of the Romance languages: Spanish, Catalan, Galician, French, Occitan, Italian, Romanian or
Ida Vitale (left) receiving the award in 2018.
The Guadalajara International Book Fair, better known as the FIL, is the largest book fair in the Americas, and second-largest in the world after Frankfurt's. It is considered the most important cultu
FIL Award
…Jalisco, and the Fondo de Cultura Económica and was originally named in honor of writer Juan Rulfo, a native of Sayula, Jalisco. It is awarded during the Guadalajara International Book Fair (FIL). In 2005, the Rulfo family requested that the name be removed from association with the prize, given that it had become "the spoils of small…
XXI Book Fair 2007
Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel García Márquez, and Pasqual Maragall awarding the Juan Rulfo Prize to Juan Goytisolo, FIL 2004
Marisol Schulz, managing director of the Guadalajara International Book Fair
Interior FIL 2008