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Suzanne Jill Levine is a leading translator of Latin American literature. 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 in 2009 by Dalkey Archive Press, along with her classic translations of novels by Manuel Puig). Aside from her many volumes of translations of Latin American fiction and poetic works, she has contributed numerous essays and translations of prose and poetry to major anthologies and journals including the New Yorker. Her frequent honors include National Endowment for the Arts and NEH fellowship and research grants, the first PEN USA West Prize for Literary Translation, the PEN American Center Career Achievement award, and a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. |
