Activities in Spain and Latin America

Mariela Nagle is a consultant, curator and researcher, specialised in picture books and children literature around the world. She runs the international children’s bookstore Mundo Azul in Berlin, Germany. She has been engaged in different social and cultural programmes since 2007. Mariela Nagle was a jury member at the Bologna Ragazzi Award (2018) and the National German Children Literature Award (2018).

He is a Journalist that has worked in the fields of book promotion and marketing at several Mexican Institutions such as the Coordinación Nacional de Literatura del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Fondo de Cultura Económica and the Bookshop’s Network Educal. He was general director of MVB Latin America, a joint-venture founded by the Frankfurter Buchmesse and MVB.

Expert in Communication, Cultural Manager and Children’s and YA Literature expert. She is currently manager of the Fundación SM Mexico where she runs cultural and educational projects in an Iberoamerican network. From 2018 to 2020 she headed the Children’s and YA Books Commission of the Mexican National Book Chamber. 

Director and Founder of Alboroto Ediciones, a publisher of book-albums dealing with social topics. She was awarded the Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publishers of the Year in the category Central and South America 2020. Besides the recent launch of Alboroto, she has been working in the publishing sector for over 25 years, among which she dedicated 18 years to Ediciones Tecolote, which was nominated to the BOP Prize too. 

Gabriel studied Set Design at the Mexican National Institute for Fine Arts and has been working as illustrator ever since 1998. He obtained a special awarding in the category New Horizons of the Bologna Ragazzi Prize in 2009 CJ Picture Book Prize in 2010. His books were featured in the White Ravens List of the Munich Library and the Catalogue 50 books/covers of the American Institute of Graphic Arts. 

Graphic Designer and Illustrator, he has received several Design prizes and his works have been featured in some international Design and Illustration exhibits such as a! Diseño, the Illustration Bienale of Bratislava or the Lahti Poster Trienal. His illustration works have been exhibited in many countries.

Born in 1975 in Mexico City, he is cartoonist, vignettist and illustrator. His worked appeared in some important newspapers such as El Día, Milenio Diario (Mil Cosas Más), Hoy Novedades and magazines like Expansión, Variopinto, Mexicanísmo, Liberación MX.  

Born in Mexico City, she has written several poetical works. Her work has been published in Belgium, Canada, USA, China and England and has been translated into several languages. She received honours at White Ravens, Ragazzi Awards and the International Honour List of the Book on Board for Young People. She works as mentor for the Fundación para las Letras Mexicanas.

Bolivian illustrator and educator currently living in Mexico. Her work as illustrator has received acknowledgements in several forums the International Art Contest for Children by Hispanic Artists 201 in Las Vegas. She obtained likewise honors for her work at the Sharjah Children´s Reading Festival 2018, and the International Children´s and YA Book Fair in Mexico City. 

She is a literary agent that has worked for 25 years as editor and later as editorial director for children’s and YA literature in publishing houses in Germany (Patmos, Sauerländer, Boje/Baumhaus). In 2017 she founded Peretti Literary Agency in Cologne, specializing in projects, authors and illustrators for young readers; the Agency also handles translation rights from the US, Canada, UK and Australia into the German speaking market.

He is graphic designer and illustrator. He received some prizes such as the NOMA Concours Encouragement Prize in Japan (2000), the Art Direction Gold World Metal in the frame of the New York Film Festival of 2009. His professional and private production have been included into many exhibitions in Cuba, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Czech Republic and Mexico. 

She is publisher and designer at Petra Ediciones since 1990. She received several honours on national and international level such as the Prize for best publishing work at the Guadalajara Book Fair 2015, the Latin American Book Design Prize 2016 at the Book Fair Buenos Aires. She has taught courses and has given workshops in different countries and for various institutions such as the National Book Center in Venezuela or the Catalan Ramon Llul Institute.

The FLM is a Mexican Institution that promotes reflection and discussion on literature. It seeks to create an space that forsters dialogue, the encounter of different generations.

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