David Unger, recipient of Guatemala’s Miguel Ángel Asturias National Literature Prize for lifetime achievement, is a poet, translator, novelist, and essayist. He has translated eighteen titles to date, including his acclaimed re-translation of Guatemalan Nobelist Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Mr. President (Penguin Classics, 2022), The Popol Vuh, and books by Enrique Lihn, Nicanor Parra, Rigoberta Menchú, and Silvia Molina, among others. His most recent novel is In My Eyes, You Are Beautiful (Mosaic Press, 2023).