Contributors: Translator

Suzanne Jill Levine

Suzanne Jill Levine, professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara and distinguished translator of Latin American literature, is currently general editor for Penguin Classics of a five-volume series of Borges's essays and poetry. She has received PEN awards, National Endowment grants, and a Guggenheim fellowship, among other honors; her books include the literary biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (2000; 2002) and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; to be reissued by Dalkey Archive in 2009).

Photograph: Sy Cooper