diff --git a/parquet/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/ParquetAvro.java b/parquet/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/ParquetAvro.java
index 9783880a5985..e2afff44f3f1 100644
--- a/parquet/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/ParquetAvro.java
+++ b/parquet/src/main/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/ParquetAvro.java
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 import org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.base.Preconditions;
 import org.apache.iceberg.relocated.com.google.common.collect.Lists;
 import org.apache.iceberg.types.TypeUtil;
+import org.apache.iceberg.variants.Variant;
 
 class ParquetAvro {
 
@@ -220,6 +221,9 @@ public <T> Conversion<T> getConversionByClass(
             }
           } else if ("uuid".equals(logicalType.getName())) {
             return (Conversion<T>) uuidConversion;
+          } else if ("variant".equals(logicalType.getName())
+              && Variant.class.isAssignableFrom(datumClass)) {
+            return (Conversion<T>) variantConversion;
           }
           return super.getConversionByClass(datumClass, logicalType);
         }
diff --git a/parquet/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/TestParquet.java b/parquet/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/TestParquet.java
index 54f664c02c36..12861a2cb526 100644
--- a/parquet/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/TestParquet.java
+++ b/parquet/src/test/java/org/apache/iceberg/parquet/TestParquet.java
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 import org.apache.iceberg.avro.AvroSchemaUtil;
 import org.apache.iceberg.data.Record;
 import org.apache.iceberg.data.parquet.GenericParquetWriter;
+import org.apache.iceberg.data.parquet.InternalReader;
 import org.apache.iceberg.expressions.Expression;
 import org.apache.iceberg.io.CloseableIterable;
 import org.apache.iceberg.io.FileAppender;
@@ -73,6 +74,8 @@
 import org.apache.iceberg.util.Pair;
 import org.apache.iceberg.util.RandomUtil;
 import org.apache.iceberg.variants.Variant;
+import org.apache.iceberg.variants.VariantTestUtil;
+import org.apache.iceberg.variants.Variants;
 import org.apache.parquet.avro.AvroParquetWriter;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.Encoding;
 import org.apache.parquet.column.statistics.Statistics;
@@ -602,6 +605,31 @@ public void testAvroWriterRejectsVariantType() {
         .hasMessage("Avro writer does not support variant types");
   }
 
+  @Test
+  void writesVariantWithDefaultAvroWriter() throws IOException {
+    Schema schema = new Schema(required(1, "v", Types.VariantType.get()));
+    GenericData.Record record =
+        new GenericData.Record(AvroSchemaUtil.convert(schema.asStruct(), "table"));
+    Variant expected = Variant.of(Variants.emptyMetadata(), Variants.of(34));
+    record.put("v", expected);
+
+    File file = createTempFile(temp);
+    try (FileAppender<GenericData.Record> writer =
+        Parquet.write(Files.localOutput(file)).schema(schema).build()) {
+      writer.add(record);
+    }
+
+    try (CloseableIterable<Record> rows =
+        Parquet.read(Files.localInput(file))
+            .project(schema)
+            .createReaderFunc(fileSchema -> InternalReader.create(schema, fileSchema))
+            .build()) {
+      Variant actual = (Variant) getOnlyElement(rows).get(0);
+      VariantTestUtil.assertEqual(expected.metadata(), actual.metadata());
+      VariantTestUtil.assertEqual(expected.value(), actual.value());
+    }
+  }
+
   @Test
   public void adaptiveBloomFilterSizingShrinksFile() throws IOException {
     // when PARQUET_BLOOM_FILTER_ADAPTIVE_ENABLED is not set (the default), the writer