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Luis Enrique Sam Colop
Guatemalan writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Luis Enrique Sam Colop or Sam-Colop (born in Cantel, 1955, died July 15, 2011) was a Guatemalan/Native American linguist,[1] [2] lawyer, poet, writer, newspaper columnist,[3] promoter of the K'iche' language, and social activist.[4]
Early life
He was born in Cantel, Guatemala in 1955.
Education
Sam Colop graduated in Law at the Rafael Landivar University[5][6] and obtained his Ph.D. at SUNY, Buffalo in 1994 with a dissertation on Maya poetry.[7]
Teaching career
He taught K'iche' Language at the Universidad de San Carlos, Guatemala. Starting in 1999 he was a Fulbright-sponsored visiting scholar at St. Mary's College of Maryland[8]
Books and articles
Published works by Luis Sam-Colop include two poem collections, Versos sin refugio [9] and La copa y la raíz[10] as well as various essays and articles.[11] He is best known outside Guatemala for a new edition of the Popol Vuh in the native language.[12] He recently received a Guggenheim fellowship in connection with this work.
External links
- Ucha'xik - A growing collection of his newspaper columns in the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre from 1996 to 2011.
References
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