Luis Enrique Sam Colop
Luis Enrique Sam Colop or Sam-Colop (1955 – 15 July 2011) was a Guatemalan/Native American linguist, lawyer, poet, writer, newspaper columnist, promoter of the K'iche' language, and social activist.
Luis Enrique Sam Colop
- Born
- 1955 · Cantel.
- Died
- 2011 · Guatemala City.
- Nationality
- Guatemala
- Occupation
- linguist · writer · poet · jurist
- Education
- Rafael Landívar University · University at Buffalo
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · J. William Fulbright Prize
- Languages
- Spanish
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Early life and education
Early life and education
He was born in Cantel, Guatemala in 1955. 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.
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Luis Enrique Sam Colop, recorded as a linguist, jurist and writer, was born in 1955. The birth is recorded by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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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
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1955
Luis Enrique Sam Colop born at Cantel.
2011
Luis Enrique Sam Colop died at Guatemala City.
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Cantel.
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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.
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- 1.Ais.arizona.edu. Luis Enrique Sam Colop, 1955-2011 | American Indian Studies.
- 2.William D. Davies and Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, K‘iché and the structure of antipassive, Language 66, 522-549. (1990)
- 3.Prensa Libre (newspaper), Guatemala.
- 4.Nick Copeland Cruel Populism: Counterinsurgency Strategy and the Limits of Democracy in the Guatemalan Highlands , pages 10 and 29. LASC Working Paper N.21, University of Maryland
- 5.Alberto M. Fernández, Review of Kay B. Warren's Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala . ReVista online journal, Harvard (Spring 1999).
- 6.Franz Galich, ¿Existe una literatura indígena en Guatemala? . Accessed March 08, 2009
- 7.Luis Enrique Sam Colop, Maya Poetics. Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY at Buffalo. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor (1994)
- 8.Building Student Exchanges with the Emerging Democratic World . Grant proposal, St. Mary's College of Maryland (2003).
- 9.Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, Versos sin refugio (1980). 32 pages, in Spanish.
- 10.Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, La copa y la raíz. Editorial San Antonio, Guatemala (1979). In Spanish and K‘iche‘.
- 11.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.
- 12.Luis Enrique Sam Colop, Popol Wuj – Versión Poética K‘iche‘. PEMBI/GTZ/Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1999). In the Quiché Maya language.
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