Luis de Lión

Luis de Lión, whose name was José Luis de León Díaz, was born in 1939 at San Juan del Obispo, in Sacatepéquez, into a Kaqchikel family. A schoolteacher in the countryside and then in town, he later taught at the University of San Carlos of Guatemala. A poet, short-story writer and novelist, author of collections of stories from the sixties, he was the first modern Guatemalan writer to call himself Kaqchikel Maya. He died in 1984.

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• NovelTime Commences in XibalbáEl tiempo principia en XibalbáLuis de Lión · 1985Literature