Ermilo Abreu Gómez (September 18, 1894 in

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– July 14, 1971 in

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born in Mérida, Yucatán,

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. He was a member of the

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from 1963. He was also a professor in several universities in the United States. He died in

in 1971.

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His literary work was varied, over a long period of time: * ''La Xtabay.'' 1919 * ''El Corcovado.'' 1924 * ''Clásicos. Románticos. Modernos'' (1934) * ''Canek.'' 1940 ** in English: '' Canek. History and legend of a Maya hero.''; transl. & introd. by Mario L. Dávila, Carter Wilson. University of California Press, Berkeley 1979 (cf.

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) * ''Héroes Mayas. Zamná.

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. Canek.'' 1942 ** in German: ''Geschichten von den Maja-Indianern.'' transl. Ludwig Renn. Aufbau, Weimar 1948 * ''Un Loro y tres Golondrinas'' (1946) * ''Quetzalcóatl, sueño y vigilia'' (1947) * ''Naufragio de indios'' (1951) * ''La conjura de Xinúm'' (1958) * ''Cuentos para contar al fuego'' (1959) * ''Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, bibliografía y biblioteca'' (1934) * ''Diálogo del buen decir'' (1961) The interest that

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woke up in him became the passion of his life and it also led him to become her main critic. His most well-known work is Canek (1940), a story about the Maya revolutionary. As a curiosity the commentary of the author on the book "Canek": ''"And Nymph lost the best pages!"''. (Nymph was his wife who typed the original).

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, ''La escritura de la historia'', México, Universidad Iberoamericana-Departamento de Historia, 1985. * Miguel Gamboa Carrillo, ''Apuntes sobre la vida y obra de Ermilio Abreu Gómez'', Mérida, Yucatán Escuela Normal Superior de Yucatán, 1981. * Jorge Pech, ''La sabiduría de la emoción. Vida y literatura de Ermilo Abreu Gómez'', México, Editorial Tierra Adentro-Conaculta, 1998. *

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ayer'', México, FCE, 1985

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