Guatemalan writer
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
- ^ "Luis Enrique Sam Colop, 1955-2011 | American Indian Studies". Ais.arizona.edu. Retrieved 2011-12-19.
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William D. Davies and Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, K‘iché and the structure of antipassive,
Language 66, 522-549. (1990)
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Prensa Libre (newspaper), Guatemala.
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Nick Copeland Cruel Populism: Counterinsurgency Strategy and the Limits of Democracy in the Guatemalan Highlands Archived 2010-06-10 at the Wayback Machine,
pages 10 and 29. LASC Working Paper N.21, University of Maryland
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Alberto M. Fernández,
Review of Kay B. Warren's Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala Archived 2010-07-06 at the Wayback Machine.
ReVista online journal, Harvard (Spring 1999).
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Franz Galich, ¿Existe una literatura indígena en Guatemala? Archived 2009-03-23 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed March 08, 2009
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Luis Enrique Sam Colop, Maya Poetics.
Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY at Buffalo.
University Microfilms, Ann Arbor (1994)
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Building Student Exchanges with the Emerging Democratic World Archived 2010-05-30 at the Wayback Machine.
Grant proposal, St. Mary's College of Maryland (2003).
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Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, Versos sin refugio (1980). 32 pages, in Spanish.
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Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, La copa y la raíz. Editorial San Antonio, Guatemala (1979). In Spanish and K‘iche‘.
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Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, Jub'aqtun Omay Kuchum K'aslemal, Cinco siglos de encumbrimento. Series Seminario Permanente de Estudios Mayas, No. 1. Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1991). 42 pages, in Spanish.
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Luis Enrique Sam Colop, Popol Wuj — Versión Poética K‘iche‘.
PEMBI/GTZ/Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1999).
In the Quiché Maya language.
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