Suzanne Jill Levine, a scholar and writer, has translated a number of the most prominent Latin American authors. A Guggenheim fellow in a career of many other honors, she is now a distinguished professor emerita of the University of California. Among her recent publications are unique works by Silvina Ocampo for City Lights, a five-volume edition of Jorge Luis Borges’s poetry and nonfictions for Penguin paperback classics, Untranslatability Goes Global, edited for Routledge, and her translation of Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories (Seven Stories Press, 2020). Her articles, essays and translations have appeared in scores of websites, anthologies and journals including The New Yorker and many past issues of FICTION. Her books include a literary biography of Manuel Puig (FSG, Faber and Faber) and the influential Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction.
Translations by Suzanne Jill Levine
"Where Magda Is Set Aside" by Juan Carlos Onetti | Number 65 |
"Sentinels of the Dark" by Silvina Ocampo | Number 64 |
"The Enmity of Things" by Silvina Ocampo | Number 64 |
"Florindo Flodiola" by Silvina Ocampo | Number 64 |
From: "The Taiga Syndrome" by Christina Rivera-Garza | Number 63 |
"Back in Time" by Juan Carlos Onetti | Number 62 |
"The Mystery of the Thinking Rabbit" by Clarice Lispector | Number 62 |
From: "The Man in Tweed: The City" by Mauricio Montiel Figueiras | Number 61 |
"An End to the Madness" by Jorge Volpi | Number 61 |
"The Promise" by Silvina Ocampo | Number 60 |
"A Thin Line Between Love and Hate" by Adolfo Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocampo | Number 56 |
"About the Shape of the World" by Adolfo Bioy Casares | Vol. 10 Nos. 1&2 |
"Faust on the Threshold of Destiny" by Adolfo Bioy Casares | Vol. 10 Nos. 1&2 |
"A Secret Life" by Adolfo Bioy Casares | Vol. 10 Nos. 1&2 |
"Creation (An Autobiographical Study)" by Silvina Ocampo | Vol. 10 Nos. 1&2 |
"Luisa Frascati" by Leopoldo Lugones | Vol. 10 Nos. 1&2 |
"The Expression" by Mario Benedetti | Vol. 10 Nos. 1&2 |
"The Fireman" by Mario Benedetti | Vol. 10 Nos. 1&2 |
"The Adventure of a Photographer in La Plata" by Adolfo Bioy Casares | Vol. 8, Nos. 2&3 |
"Baroque Concerto" by Alejo Carpentier | Vol. 6, No. 3 |
"You Always Can Tell" by Guillermo Cabrera Infante | Vol. 6, No. 3 |
"The Instructor" by Severo Sarduy | Vol. 6, No. 3 |
"An Affair" by Adolfo Bioy Casares | Vol. 6, No. 2 |
"Carol Fernandez" by Silvina Ocampo | Vol. 6, No. 2 |
Editorals by Suzanne Jill Levine
Introduction to "An End to the Madness" by Jorge Volpi | Number 61 |
Preface to the River Plate Section | Vol. 10, Nos. 1&2 |
Foreword to Ten Cuban Writers | Vol. 6, No. 3 |