Mikeas Sánchez

Mikeas Sánchez

Mikeas Sánchez was born in 1980 in the small town of Tujsübajk (Green Water River), also known as Colonia Guadalupe Victoria, Chapultenango municipality, Chiapas. He is a poet and storyteller Zoque. At age seven he began to speak Spanish; today, his academic work, he also understands English and Catalan. In 2003 he earned a Bachelor of Science in Education from the Universidad Juarez Autonoma de Tabasco. Later, in 2005, was admitted international graduate scholarship program for indigenous students from the Ford Foundation and enrolled in the Master of Teaching Language and Literature at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Mikeas poetic work has earned him, in 2004, the State Prize for Indigenous Poetry Pat O 'so; and in 2005 won the First Prize for Fiction and the Bolom says with his stories. Mikeas is the author of Maka Tumjama Müjsi (And know one day), published by the National Council for Culture and the Arts in the Public Library of Chiapas (Tuxtla Gutiérrez, 2006) series and is part of the anthology of poets Chiapas Depths word published by the Intercultural University of Chiapas; San Cristobal de las Casas, 2005.