title: Luis Enrique Sam Colop
text: 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.
  
  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] .
      ReVista online journal, Harvard (Spring 1999).
  </ref>
  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.
  
  External links
   Ucha'xik - A growing collection of his newspaper columns in the Guatemalan newspaper Prensa Libre from 1996 to 2011.
  
  References
  
  Linguists from Guatemala
  St. Mary's College of Maryland faculty
  K'iche'
  Guatemalan Maya people
  People from Quetzaltenango Department
  1955 births
  2011 deaths
  Guatemalan male writers
  Rafael Landívar University alumni
  University at Buffalo alumni
  Academic staff of Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala