Marisol Ceh Moo

[3] In 2019 Ceh Moo became the first woman to win the Latin American Indigenous Literature Award.

[8] She made her debut with X-Teya, u puksi'ik'al ko'olel (Teya, A Woman's Heart), the first modern novel published in the Maya language.

[9] Ceh Moo broke with prior tradition of Mayan language publishing, which typically only includes short stories, myths, and poems that deal with themes relating to Mayan culture, by publishing the novel, which tells the story of a communist militant woman murdered in 1970s Yucatán.

[11] Ceh Moo was worried at first about breaking Mayan traditions in literature, but eventually chose to use new words and explore themes that were important to her.

Her 2014 novel Chen tumeen x ch’úupen won that year's Nezahualcóyotl Prize for Literature in Mexican Languages.