Suzanne Jill Levine
Suzanne Jill Levine is a translator of Latin American literature and professor at the University of California in Santa Barbara. Her scholarly and critical works include the biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman and a book on the poetics of translation, The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction. Her many honours 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.