Marisol Ceh Moo

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. The story is a political and realistic narrative.^[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.^[2][10] Ceh Moo uses tropes and literature types that she borrows from the Spanish and uses them in her native language.^[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.^[2]

She has since published several other novels and translates between Spanish and Maya. Her 2014 novel Chen tumeen x ch'úupen won that year's Nezahualcóyotl Prize for Literature in Mexican Languages.^[3][4]

Ceh Moo is working on a series of books in the Yucatec language.^[12] The series was started after she was chosen to take part in the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, which awards a scholarship to recipients.^[13]

• X-Teya, u puksi'ik'al koolel. in Spanish and Yukatek. Conaculta. 2008. ISBN 978-970-35-0959-1.
• Sujuy K'iin (2011)
• T'ambilak men tunk'ulilo'ob. in Spanish and Yukatek. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, Dirección General de Culturas Populares. 2011. ISBN 978-607-455-665-0.
• Tabita y otros cuentos mayas. in Spanish and Yukatek. Mérida, Yucatán: Maldonado Editores del Mayab. 2013. OCLC 953032814.
• Kaaltale', ku xijkunsik u jel puksi'ik'alo'ob. in Spanish and Yukatek. Mérida, Yucatán: Secretaría de la Cultura y las Artes de Yucatán. 2013. ISBN 978-607-8267-30-9.
• Chen tumeen x ch'úupen [Only for being a woman]. in Spanish and Yukatek. Mexico City: CONACULTA. 2015. ISBN 978-607-745-305-5.

• Arias, Arturo (July 2012). "¿Tradición versus modernidad en las novellas yukatekas contemporáneas? Yuxtaponiendo X-Teya, u puksi'ik'al ko'olel y U yóok´otilo´ob áak´ab". Cuadernos de Literatura (in Spanish). 16 (32): 208–235 – via EBSCOhost.
• Gil, Yasnaya Elena Aguilar (Spring 2016). "(Is There) An Indigenous Literature?". Diálogo. 19 (1). Translated by Gloria E. Chacón: 157–159. doi:10.1353/dlg.2016.0024. S2CID 148523851.