Suzanne Jill Levine

Suzanne Jill Levine’s translation Mundo Cruel: Stories (by Luis Negron) won the 2014 Lambda Prize for Fiction. Editor of the Penguin paperback classics of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and essays, and translator of canonical Latin American writers such as Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy and Adolfo Bioy Casares, she has received many honors (NEH, NEA, Guggenheim Fellowships, Rockefeller Fellowship at Villa Serbelloni, PEN American & USA awards) and most recently received the PEN award in 2012 for Jose Donoso’ s The Lizard’s Tale. Director of Translation Studies and professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara, she is the author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction, and of the literary biography, Manuel Puig and the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (Farrar Straus & Giroux, Faber & Faber, University of Wisconsin Press, Seix Barral/Planeta). She is currently translating Eduardo Lalo’s La inutilidad for University of Chicago Press.