Suzanne Jill Levine

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