Antonio Ungar

Antonio Ungar
Born	1974 Bogotá, Colombia
Nationality	Colombian
Alma mater	National University of Colombia
Genre	Novels, short stories
Literary movement	Latin American post-Realism
Notable works	The Ears of the Wolf, Flyings Carrots, Three White Coffins

Antonio Ungar (born 1974) is a Colombian writer.

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); short listed for the Rómulo Gallegos Prize, currently being adapted into a TV series; translated into French, English, Dutch, German, Italian, Greek and Hebrew.