Humberto Ak'abal

Aquí Era El Paraíso / Here Was Paradise

Selección de Poemas de Humberto Ak'abal / Selected Poems of Humberto Ak'abal
Herausgeber: Aldana, Patricia / Illustrator: Carling, Amelia Lau / Übersetzer: Hazelton, Hugh

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Produktbeschreibung

A collection of poetry by one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas about the vanished world of his childhood - that of the Maya K'iche'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Groundwood Books Ltd , Canada
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Altersempfehlung: ab 9 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 178mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781773064956
• ISBN-10: 1773064959
• Artikelnr.: 61269512

Autorenporträt

HUMBERTO AK'ABAL was born in the Maya K'iche' village Momostenango in Guatemala in 1952. He worked as a blanket weaver (one of the activities for which Momostenango is renowned,) a shepherd, a sweeper, then a garment maker in a maquila in Guatemala City. When he was thirty-eight, he published his first book of poetry. Ak'abal is famous worldwide as one of the great contemporary poets in the Spanish language, and one of the greatest Indigenous poets of the Americas, having written over twenty-five books.  He died in January 2019, leaving his widow, Mayulí Bieri, and son Nakil Ak'abal Bieri.