Suzanne Jill Levine

Suzanne Jill Levine is a leading translator of Latin American literature, and professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara where she directs a Translation Studies doctoral program. In 2010, she completed a five- volume project as General Editor of the works of Jorge Luis Borges for Penguin Classics, in dual language editions, and is the editor of the On Writing volume. In October 2011, her translation of José Donoso's novel, The Lizard’s Tale, published by Northwestern University and edited by Julio Ortega will be available.

Her scholarly and critical works include her award-winning literary biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman (FSG & Faber& Faber, 2000) and her groundbreaking book on the poetics of translation The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction, published in 1991 and reissued this year by Dalkey Archive Press, along with her classic translations of novels by Manuel Puig.

Her many honors include National Endowment for the Arts and NEH fellowship and research grants, the first PEN USA West Prize for Literary Translation (1989), the PEN American Center Career Achievement award (1996), and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.

Her website here

Complete CV is here

An interview at Words Without Borders here