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Juana Karen Peñate
Juana Karen Peñate, a lawyer by training, is a Ch’ol poet, writer, translator, educator and cultural promoter from Emiliano Zapata, Tumbalá, Chiapas, Mexico. She has authored several books of poetry in Ch’ol with self-translations in Spanish including Mi nombre ya no es silencio/My name is no longer silence published by Coneculta in 2002, Ipusik’al Matye’lum/Heart of a Wild Land, first published by Pluralia in 2013, and most recently Isoñil Ja’al/Dance of the Rain, which won the 2020 Premio de Literaturas Indígenas de América and was published by the University of Guadalajara. Another new poetry collection, Tsa’ Kñajle…Jump’ej K’iñ, Jump’ej K’iñ…/One Day, One Day…I Dreamed…, was co-published by Oralibrura and Lakñichimal.
