Hubert Matiúwàa

Hubert Matiúwàa (1986) belongs to the Mè’phàà culture. He earned undergraduate degrees in Philosophy and Letters from the Universidad Autónoma de Guerrero and in Creative Writing from the Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de México, and a master’s degree in Latin American Studies from UNAM. In 2016, he was awarded the first Cenzontle Prize in Indigenous Languages, and in 2017 he received the Fifth Indigenous Literatures of America Prize (PLIA) and the State Prize for Young Poets from the State of Guerrero. He is the author of Xtámbaa: Piel de Tierra (Pluralia Ediciones/Secretaría de Cultura, 2016), Tsína rí nàyaxà’: Cicatriz que te mira (Pluralia Ediciones/Secretaría de Cultura de la CDMX, 2017), Ìjín gò’ò Tsítsídiín: Las Sombrereras de Tsítsídiín (INALI/Secretaría de Cultura, 2018), and Mañuwìín: Cordel Torcido (Universidad de Guadalajara/Departamento de Estudios en Lenguas Indígenas, 2018).