Luis Enrique Sam Colop

Luis Enrique Sam Colop

Luis Enrique Sam Colop (or Sam-Colop) is a Guatemalan linguist, lawyer, poet, newspaper columnist, and social activist. A native K'iche' speaker, he is best known outside Guatemala as the editor of a new edition of the "Popol Vuh".

Sam Colop graduated at the Rafael Landivar University and obtained his Ph.D. at SUNY, Buffalo in 1994 with a dissertation on Maya poetry. In 1999 he was a Fulbright-sponsored visiting scholar at St. Mary's College of Maryland.

Books and articles

*"Maya Poetics". Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY at Buffalo. University Microfilms, Ann Arbor (1994).
*"Popol Wuj — Versión Poética K‘iche‘." PEMBI/GTZ/Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1999). (In the Quiché Maya language).
*William D. Davies and Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, "K‘iché and the structure of antipassive", Language 66, 522-549. (1990)


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