Briceida Cuevas, also known as Briceida Cuevas Cob (born Tepakán,

Calkiní Calkiní (Yucatec Maya: "throat of the sun") is a city in the Mexican state of Campeche. It is situated at the northern tip of the state, on the central western coast the Yucatán Peninsula The Yucatán Peninsula (, also , ; es, Península d ...

Campeche Campeche (; yua, Kaampech ), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Campeche ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Campeche), is one of the 31 states which make up the 32 Federal Entities of Mexico. Located in southeast Mexico, it is bordered by ...

, Mexico, July 12, 1969) is a

Mayan Mayan most commonly refers to: * Maya peoples, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern Central America * Maya civilization, pre-Columbian culture of Mesoamerica and northern Central America * Mayan languages, language family spoken ...

poet. She writes poems about everyday life in

Yucatec Maya Yucatec Maya (; referred to by its speakers simply as Maya or as , is one of the 32 Mayan languages of the Mayan language family. Yucatec Maya is spoken in the Yucatán Peninsula and northern Belize. There is also a significant diasporic commu ...

, many of which have been translated into Spanish, French and English. She is a member of Escritores en Lenguas Indigenas A.C., and a corresponding member of the

Academia Mexicana de la Lengua The Academia Mexicana de la Lengua (variously translated as the Mexican Academy of Language, the Mexican Academy of the Language, the Mexican Academy of Letters, or glossed as the Mexican Academy of the Spanish Language; acronym AML) is the corr ...

Selected works

* ''Flor y canto: cinco poetas indígenas del sur'', INI/UNESCO, Tabasco, 1993. *''In pákat yétel júntul t'el: Tumbén Ikʼtʼanil ich Mayaʼ Tʼan'' ''(Poesía contemporánea en lengua maya)'', España, 1994. *''U yokʼol auat pekʼ (El quejido del perro en su existencia''), Casa Internacional del Escritor, Quintana Roo, 1995. *''Jeʼ bix kʼin (Como el sol''), 1998. * ''Las lenguas de América. Recital de poesía'', UNAM, La Pluralidad Cultural en México, 2005. * ''Voci di Antiche Radici, dieci poeti indigeni del Méssico,'' Trieste, Italia, 2005. *''Tiʼ u billil in nookʼ /Del dobladillo de mi ropa,'' 2008''.'' *''U t'íibta'al cháak : u múuch ts'íibil ik'il t'aano'ob yéetel tsikbalo'ob ich Maya yétel kaselan = Escribiendo la lluvia : antología literaria en lengua maya-español''. Campeche, 2012. *''Lenguas de Mexico: Maya'' (audio poetry reading by Briceida Cuevas Cob), 2019.

Selected works translated into English

* Four poems by Briceida Cuevas Cob (from ''U yok’ol auat pek’ ti kuxtal pek’, he growl of the dog in its existence' *Two Poems '' ite'' and ''Owl' *''School''

References

1969 births Living people 20th-century Mexican poets Mayan-language poets People from Campeche {{Mexico-poet-stub