Luis Enrique Sam Colop or Sam-Colop (born in
Cantel, 1955, died July 15, 2011) was a
Guatemala
Guatemala, officially the Republic of Guatemala, is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico, to the northeast by Belize, to the east by Honduras, and to the southeast by El Salvador. It is hydrologically b ...
n/Native American linguist,
lawyer, poet, writer, newspaper columnist, promoter of the
K'iche' language,
and social activist.
Early life
He was born in Cantel, Guatemala in 1955.
Education
Sam Colop graduated in Law at the
Rafael Landivar University
and obtained his Ph.D. at
SUNY,
Buffalo in 1994 with a dissertation on Maya poetry.
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
St. Mary's College of Maryland (SMCM) is a Public college, public Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in St. Mary's City, Maryland.Maryland State Archives, Online Manual, "St. Mary's College Of Maryland: Origin & Fun ...
Books and articles
Published works by Luis Sam-Colop include two poem collections, ''Versos sin refugio'' and ''La copa y la raíz'' as well as various essays and articles. He is best known outside Guatemala for a new edition of the ''
Popol Vuh
''Popol Vuh'' (also ''Popul Vuh'' or ''Pop Vuj'') is a text recounting the mythology and history of the Kʼicheʼ people of Guatemala, one of the Maya peoples who also inhabit the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Yucatan and Quintana Roo, ...
'' in the native language.
[
Luis Enrique Sam Colop, ''Popol Wuj — Versión Poética K‘iche‘.''
PEMBI/ GTZ/Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1999).
In the Quiché Maya language.
]
He recently received a
Guggenheim fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
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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Linguists from Guatemala
St. Mary's College of Maryland faculty
K'iche' people
Guatemalan Maya people
People from Quetzaltenango Department
1955 births
2011 deaths
Guatemalan male writers
Rafael Landívar University alumni
University at Buffalo alumni
Academic staff of Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala