Suzanne Jill Levine

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Suzanne Jill Levine (born October 21, 1946 in New York, New York)[1] is an American poet,[2] translator, translation scholar and critic.[3]

She earned a BA at Vassar College in 1967,[1] an MA at Columbia University in 1969,[1][2] and a PhD at New York University in 1976.[1][4] She specializes in Latin American literature. Some of her most best known translations include works by Jorge Luis Borges,[3] Manuel Puig, Adolfo Bioy Casares, and Guillermo Cabrera Infante.[5] She wrote the biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (2001), published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

Levine is an honorary member of IAPTI.[6]

Awards

  • PEN Center USA's Translation Award 2012[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2005. Retrieved March 1, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Suzanne Jill Levine, poet
  3. ^ a b Bio of Susan Jill Levine
  4. ^ Suzanne Jill Levine, PhD
  5. ^ An Interview with Suzanne Jill Levine
  6. ^ CV of Suzanne Jill Levine
  7. ^ PEN Center USA's Translation Award

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