David Unger

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David Unger is a famous Guatemalan-American author and translator. He was born in 1950 in Guatemala City. In 1955, he emigrated to Hialeah, Florida with his parents.

Unger graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a B.A. and received an MFA from Columbia University. He is currently teaching at the City College of New York.

[edit] Published Works

  • The Girl in the Treehouse
  • Life in the Damn Tropics: A Novel
  • Neither Caterpillar Nor Butterfly: Poems

[edit] Works Unger Translated or Co-Translated

  • Antipoems: New and Selected, by Nicanor Parra
  • The Dark Room & Other Poems, by Enrique Lihn
  • Six Poems of Loneliness, by Enrique Lihn
  • The Dead Leaves, by Bárbara Jacobs
  • First Love & Look for My Obituary, by Elena Garro
  • The Girl from Chimel, by Rigoberta Menchú
  • The Honey Jar, by Rigoberta Menchú
  • Letters to My Mother, by Teresa Cardenas
  • The Love You Promised Me, by Silvia Molina
  • Me in the Middle, by Ana Maria Machado
  • Open Door: Stories, by Luisa Valenzuela
  • Popol Vuh: Libro Sagrado de Los Mayas, version by Victor Monejo

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