David Unger is a famous Guatemalan-American author and translator. He was born in 1950 in Guatemala City, Guatemala. In 1955, he emigrated to Hialeah, Florida with his parents. 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Guatemala City (in full, La Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción; locally known as Guatemala or, informally, Guate) is the capital and largest city of Guatemala and in Central America. ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Hialeah is a city located in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 22nd 170,451 km² 260 km 800 km 17. ...

Unger graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a B.A. and received an MFA from Columbia University. Columbia University is a private university in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City and a member of the Ivy League. ...

Published Works

The Girl in the Treehouse

Life in the Damn Tropics: A Novel

Neither Caterpillar Nor Butterfly: Poems

Works Unger Translated or Co-Translated

Antipoems: New and Selected, by Nicanor Parra Nicanor Parra (born in San Fabián de Alico, 1914) is a Chilea physics and math teacher and a poet (or antipoet). ...

The Dark Room & Other Poems, by Enrique Lihn

The Dead Leaves, by Bárbara Jacobs

First Love & Look for My Obituary, by Elena Garro

The Girl from Chimel, by Rigoberta Menchu Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born in Chimel, Guatemala, January 9, 1959) was the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, given in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. Her prize is based in part on her 1987...

The Honey Jar, by Rigoberta Menchu Rigoberta Menchú Tum (born in Chimel, Guatemala, January 9, 1959) was the recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, given in recognition of her work for social justice and ethno-cultural reconciliation based on respect for the rights of indigenous peoples. Her prize is based in part on her 1987...

Letters to My Mother, by Teresa Cardenas

The Love You Promised Me, by Silvia Molina

Me in the Middle, by Ana Maria Machado Ana Maria Machado is a Brazilian journalist, writer, and professor born in Rio de Janeiro on December 24, 1941. ...

Open Door: Stories, by Luisa Valenzuela Luisa Valenzuela (b. ...

Popol Vuh: Libro Sagrado de Los Mayas, version by Victor Monejo