Suzanne Jill Levine

Suzanne Jill Levine is a professor the University of California in Santa Barbara, where she directs a Translation Studies doctoral program. She is a noted translator of Latin American Fiction and author of the literary biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions and The Subversive Scribe. Her most recent honour was a PEN award in 2012 for her translation of José Donoso’s The Lizard’s Tale. She is currently translating Eduardo Lalo’s La inutilidad for University of Chicago Press.