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{{Short description|Guatemalan writer}}
'''Luis Enrique Sam Colop''' or '''Sam-Colop''' (born in [[Cantel, Guatemala|Cantel]], 1955, died July 15, 2011) was a [[Guatemala]]n/Native American linguist,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ais.arizona.edu/news/luis-enrique-sam-colop-1955-2011 |title=Luis Enrique Sam Colop, 1955-2011 &#124; American Indian Studies |publisher=Ais.arizona.edu |date= |accessdate=2011-12-19}}</ref>
<ref>
    [[William D. Davies]] and Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, ''K‘iché and the structure of antipassive'',
    Language 66, 522-549. (1990)
</ref>
lawyer, poet, writer, newspaper columnist,<ref>
    [[Prensa Libre (Guatemala)|Prensa Libre]] (newspaper), Guatemala.
</ref> promoter of the [[Quiché language|K'iche' language]], 
and social activist.<ref>
    Nick Copeland [http://www.lasc.umd.edu/Publications/WorkingPapers/NewLASCSeries/WP21(NickCopeland).pdf Cruel Populism: Counterinsurgency Strategy and the Limits of Democracy in the Guatemalan Highlands] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610052614/http://www.lasc.umd.edu/Publications/WorkingPapers/NewLASCSeries/WP21(NickCopeland).pdf |date=2010-06-10 }},
    pages 10 and 29.  LASC Working Paper N.21, University of Maryland
</ref>

==Early life==

He was born in Cantel, Guatemala in 1955.

==Education==

Sam Colop graduated in Law at the [[Rafael Landivar University]]<ref>
    Alberto M. Fernández,
    [http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/499 Review of Kay B. Warren's ''Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100706014412/http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/revista/articles/view/499 |date=2010-07-06 }}.
    ReVista online journal, Harvard (Spring 1999).
</ref><ref>
    Franz Galich, [http://collaborations.denison.edu/istmo/n05/articulos/existe.html ¿Existe una literatura indígena en Guatemala?] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323063251/http://collaborations.denison.edu/istmo/n05/articulos/existe.html |date=2009-03-23 }}. Accessed March 08, 2009
</ref>
and obtained his Ph.D. at [[State University of New York|SUNY]], [[Buffalo, New York|Buffalo]] in 1994 with a dissertation on Maya poetry.<ref>
    Luis Enrique Sam Colop, ''Maya Poetics''.
    Ph.D. dissertation, [[State University of New York|SUNY]] at Buffalo.
    [[University Microfilms]], [[Ann Arbor]] (1994)
</ref>

==Teaching career==

He taught K'iche' Language at the [[Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala|Universidad de San Carlos]], Guatemala. Starting in 1999 he was a Fulbright-sponsored visiting scholar at [[St. Mary's College of Maryland]]<ref>
    [https://www.smcm.edu/academics/internationaled/Pdf/IC/melfullpropjan03.PDF Building Student Exchanges with the Emerging Democratic World] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530044342/https://www.smcm.edu/academics/internationaled/Pdf/IC/melfullpropjan03.PDF |date=2010-05-30 }}.
    Grant proposal, St. Mary's College of Maryland (2003).
</ref>

==Books and articles==
Published works by Luis Sam-Colop include two poem collections, ''Versos sin refugio'' <ref>
    Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, ''Versos sin refugio'' (1980). 32 pages, in Spanish.
</ref> and ''La copa y la raíz''<ref>
    Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, ''La copa y la raíz''. Editorial San Antonio, Guatemala (1979). In Spanish and K‘iche‘.
</ref> as well as various essays and articles.<ref>
    Luis Enrique Sam-Colop, ''Jub'aqtun Omay Kuchum K'aslemal, Cinco siglos de encumbrimento''. Series ''Seminario Permanente de Estudios Mayas'', No. 1. [[Centro Educativo y Cultural Maya Cholsamaj|Cholsamaj]], Guatemala (1991). 42 pages, in Spanish.
</ref>  He is best known outside Guatemala for a new edition of the ''[[Popol Vuh]]'' in the native language.<ref>
    Luis Enrique Sam Colop, ''Popol Wuj &mdash; Versión Poética K‘iche‘.''
    [[Proyecto de Educación Maya Bilingüe Intercultural|PEMBI]]/[[GTZ]]/Cholsamaj, Guatemala (1999).
    In the [[Quiché language|Quiché Maya language]].
</ref> 
He recently received a [[Guggenheim fellowship]] in connection with this work.

==External links==
* [https://uchaxik.wordpress.com Ucha'xik] - A growing collection of his newspaper columns in the Guatemalan newspaper [[Prensa Libre (Guatemala)|Prensa Libre]] from 1996 to 2011.

==References==
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