Luis Enrique Sam Colop

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Luis Enrique Sam Colop (or Sam-Colop) is a Guatemalan linguist, lawyer, poet, newspaper columnist, and social activist. A native Quiché speaker, he is best known outside Guatemala as the author 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.

[edit] 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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