Carlos Samayoa Chinchilla (December 10, 1898–1973) was a

Guatemala Guatemala ( ; ), officially the Republic of Guatemala ( es, República de Guatemala, links=no), is a country in Central America. It is bordered to the north and west by Mexico; to the northeast by Belize and the Caribbean; to the east by H ...

n writer. For decades he worked in various roles in the government of Guatemala, but is best remembered for his writing, both fiction and non fiction.(spanish) Biography Carlos Samoaya
/ref> He worked as personal secretary for President Jorge Ubico; after Ubico's death he published the memoir ''El Dictador y Yo'' ("The Dictator and I"). He afterwards served as director of the Instituto de Antropología e Historia (IDAEH), Guatemala's national institution of anthropology, archaeology, and history, and wrote a number of works on those subjects. In 1957, Falcon's Wing Press in Colorado published a collection of his short stories, "The Emerald Lizard: Tales and Legends of Guatemala." Samayoa Chinchilla wrote "El arco de Balam-Acab" (The Bow of Balam-Acab), included in a book of stories and legends, ''Madre Milpa'' in 1934. He was married to well-known poet

Claudia Lars Claudia Lars, born in Armenia, El Salvador on December 20, 1899 as Margarita del Carmen Brannon Vega, was a Salvadoran poet. She died in San Salvador in 1974. She was the daughter of Peter Patrick Brannon and Carmen Vega Zelayandía.Plumlee, A. ...

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1898 births 1973 deaths Guatemalan male writers Guatemalan anthropologists Ethnographers Mayanists 20th-century Guatemalan historians Guatemalan Mesoamericanists 20th-century Mesoamericanists Historians of Mesoamerica 20th-century anthropologists {{ethnographer-stub