Montejo, Victor (D.)

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MONTEJO, Victor (D.)

MONTEJO, Victor (D.). Guatemalan/American, b. 1951. Genres: Anthropology/Ethnology, Mythology/Folklore, Novellas/Short stories, Humanities. Career: Writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. Publications: El Q'anil: The Man of Lightning, 1984; Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan Village, 1987; The Bird Who Cleans the World and Other Mayan Fables, 1991; Brevisinia Relacion Testimonial de la Continua Destruccion del Mayab', 1992; Sculptured Stones, 1995; Las Aventuras de mister Puttison entre los Mayas, 1998; Voices form Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Mayn History, 1999; Q'anil: Man of Lightning, 2001. Address: c/o Curbstone Press, Willimantic, CT 06226, U.S.A. Online address: vmontejo@ucdavis.edu

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