Name Luis Sam | Role Poet | |
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Died July 15, 2011, Guatemala City, Guatemala Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Humanities, Latin America & Caribbean | ||
Documental homenaje a dr luis enrique sam colop fepmaya 2014
Luis Enrique Sam Colop or Sam-Colop (born in Cantel, 1955, died July 15, 2011) was a Guatemalan/Native American linguist, lawyer, poet, writer, newspaper columnist, promoter of the K'iche' language, and social activist.
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- Documental homenaje a dr luis enrique sam colop fepmaya 2014
- Homenaje a luis enrique sam colop filgua 2012
- Early life
- Education
- Teaching career
- Books and articles
- References
Homenaje a luis enrique sam colop filgua 2012
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
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 in the native language. He recently received a Guggenheim fellowship in connection with this work.