Antonio Ungar (born 1974) is a
Colombian writer.
Profile (spanish)
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He has published several collections of short stories and novels. His latest novel "Three White Coffins" relates a fictitious political intrigue, and mixes a large amount of factual political events with a fictional hero-antihero character. The main political characters of the novel mirror real recent political leaders of Colombia, suspected of close connections to paramilitary groups.
Short stories
* Trece Circos y otros cuentos comunes (Thirteen circuses and other common tales)
Novels
* ''Zanahorias voladoras'' (''Flying Carrots''),
* ''Las orejas del lobo'' (''The Ears of the Wolf''; shortlisted for the Courier International Prize)
* ''Tres ataúdes blancos'' (''Three White Coffins''; winner of the Premio Herralde The Premio Herralde is a Spanish literary prize. It is awarded annually by the publishing house Anagrama
Anagrama is a Spanish publisher founded in 1969 by Jorge Herralde. In 2010 it was sold to the Italian publisher Feltrinelli.
Since 1969, Ana ...
); short listed for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize
The Rómulo Gallegos International Novel Prize ( es, Premio internacional de novela Rómulo Gallegos) was created on 6 August 1964 by a presidential decree enacted by Venezuelan president Raúl Leoni, in honor of the Venezuelan politician and Pres ...
, currently being adapted into a TV series; translated into French, English, Dutch, German, Italian, Greek and Hebrew.
References
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Colombian male writers
1974 births
Living people
People from Bogotá