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David Unger | |
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 Unger at the Miami Book Fair International, 2014 | |
| Born | 6 November 1950 |
| Nationality | Guatemalan |
| Occupation | Author and translator |
David Unger (born 6 November 1950) is a Guatemalan author, translator, and educator. [1] Unger teaches at the City College of New York. He works as the International Rep for the Feria Internacional del Libro de Guadalajara.[ citation needed ]
He was born on November 6, 1950 in Guatemala City. In 1955, he immigrated to Hialeah, Florida with his parents.[ citation needed ]
Unger graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a B.A. and received an MFA in 1975 from Columbia University.[ citation needed ]
He translated more than a dozen books, including three books by Rigoberta Menchu (Groundwood Books), two books by Teresa Cardenas (Groundwood Books), The Love You Promised Me by Silvia Molina (Curbstone Press), First Love by Elena Garro (Curbstone Press) and The Dead Leaves by Barbara Jacobs (Curbstone Press). In 2022 his retranslation of Miguel Angel Asturias's Mr. President was published by Penguin Classics. In 2019 he published his translation of Stories We Were Never Told (PenguinRandomHouse).
He is the editor and the main translator of Nicanor Parra's Antipoems: New and Selected (New Directions), Parra's most complete collection. He contributed to Enrique Lihn's The Dark Room (New York: New Directions, 1978) and Roque Dalton's Short Hours of the Night (Willimantic: Curbstone Press). Though he writes in English, he is considered among Guatemala's most important living writers.[ citation needed ].
Unger lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, artist Anne Gilman. [2]
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