Suzanne Jill Levine
Suzanne Jill Levine is an American writer, poet, literary translator and scholar.
Levine was born in New York City where she studied piano at Juilliard and went to Music & Art High School.
She earned an AB at Vassar College in 1967, an MA at Columbia University in 1969, and a PhD at New York University in 1977. A scholar of Latin American literature, her books include one of the first studies of Gabriel García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude and Adolfo Bioy Casares, both published in Spanish. She is also a leading specialist in Translation Studies and Comparative Literature. Her 1991 book, The Subversive Scribe, was influential on the development of translation theory in the United States and elsewhere. She has written two poetry chapbooks and hundreds of essays in major anthologies and journals. She is a translator of a range of writers including Silvina Ocampo, Clarice Lispector, Cecilia Vicuña, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Carlos Fuentes, José Donoso, Julio Cortázar and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.
Levine is an honorary member of IAPTI. She has been recipient of numerous grants and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts and for the Humanities.
Awards (selection)
- PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation for Career Commitment to Excellence
- PEN Center USA's Translation Award 2012
- John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship 1997
- PEN American Gregory Kolovakis Award in Hispanic Letters 1996
- Rockefeller Fellow, Villa Serbelloni Residency, Lake Como 1998
Selected bibliography
Books
El espejo hablado: un estudio de Cien años de soledad Guia de Adolfo Bioy Casares Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions.The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction.- ''Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir''
Poems
- ''Reckoning''