Marisol Ceh Moo

Marisol Ceh Moo (; also Sol Ceh, born May 12, 1968) is a Mexican Maya writer and professor. She writes in Yucatec and in Spanish, and is known for her efforts to revitalize and protect the Yucatec Maya language. Ceh Moo earned a degree in education from Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán and a degree in law from the Universidad Aliat.

In 2007 and 2009, Ceh Moo won the Alfredo Barrera Vázquez award. In 2019 Ceh Moo became the first woman to win the Latin American Indigenous Literature Award.

Writing She made her debut with X-Teya, u puksi'ik'al ko'olel (Teya, A Woman's Heart), the first modern novel published in the Maya language. The story is a political and realistic narrative. Ceh Moo broke with prior tradition of Mayan language publishing, which typically only includes short stories, myths, and poems that deal with themes relating to Mayan culture, by publishing the novel, which tells the story of a communist militant woman murdered in 1970s Yucatán. The series was started after she was chosen to take part in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, which awards a scholarship to recipients.

Publications

Sujuy K'iin (2011)