Suzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, which recognizes the translator’s lifetime achievements. An eminent translator whose prolific literary career began in the early 1970s, she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American fiction. Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010), her most recent translation, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She is also author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; 2006) and the biography Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (2000).

• List of FiguresForewordPart I: Close EncountersPrologue: The Latin American Boom1. Beginnings2. Living in Spanish3. 1968: Emir and Latin Literary Life4. Swinging London with Cabrera Infante5. 1970s: The "Buenos Aires Affair" in New York6. With Bioy in the Bois de BoulogneIntermezzoPart II: Stops Along the WayEntr’acte7. Sketches of Susan8. Three Feasts with Neruda9. Carlos Fuentes on Central Park West10. In Key West with Reinaldo ArenasEpilogueAfterwordAcknowledgementsNotesSelected Translations by Suzanne Jill LevineAbout the Author Index

[An] exuberant and probing memoir.

Suzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, which recognizes the translator’s lifetime achievements. An eminent translator whose prolific literary career began in the early 1970s, she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American fiction. Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010), her most recent translation, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She is also author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; 2006) and the biography Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (2000).

• List of FiguresForewordPart I: Close EncountersPrologue: The Latin American Boom1. Beginnings2. Living in Spanish3. 1968: Emir and Latin Literary Life4. Swinging London with Cabrera Infante5. 1970s: The "Buenos Aires Affair" in New York6. With Bioy in the Bois de BoulogneIntermezzoPart II: Stops Along the WayEntr’acte7. Sketches of Susan8. Three Feasts with Neruda9. Carlos Fuentes on Central Park West10. In Key West with Reinaldo ArenasEpilogueAfterwordAcknowledgementsNotesSelected Translations by Suzanne Jill LevineAbout the Author Index

[An] exuberant and probing memoir.

Suzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation, which recognizes the translator’s lifetime achievements. An eminent translator whose prolific literary career began in the early 1970s, she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American fiction. Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010), her most recent translation, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She is also author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; 2006) and the biography Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (2000).

• List of FiguresForewordPart I: Close EncountersPrologue: The Latin American Boom1. Beginnings2. Living in Spanish3. 1968: Emir and Latin Literary Life4. Swinging London with Cabrera Infante5. 1970s: The "Buenos Aires Affair" in New York6. With Bioy in the Bois de BoulogneIntermezzoPart II: Stops Along the WayEntr’acte7. Sketches of Susan8. Three Feasts with Neruda9. Carlos Fuentes on Central Park West10. In Key West with Reinaldo ArenasEpilogueAfterwordAcknowledgementsNotesSelected Translations by Suzanne Jill LevineAbout the Author Index

[An] exuberant and probing memoir.