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Suzanne Jill Levine to appear in Roundtable discussion in New York on Saturday, January 17th, 2009
Posted January 13, 2009
Filed under: Authors, Fiction, The International Literary Quarterly, Translation |
Suzanne Jill Levine, http://www.nybooks.com/nyrb/authors/9748, the distinguished academic, translator of Borges, Puig and Cortázar, and a Consulting Editor of Interlitq, will be participating in a Roundtable discussion (”The World of the Translator”) to be held in New York on Saturday, January 17th, 2009 at 2.30pm. The event will be held at the Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination http://philoctetes.org/Home/at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. Also participating will be other renowned literary figures: Peter Cole http://www.blueflowerarts.com/pcole.html; Peter Constantine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Constantine; Jonathan Galassi http://harvardmagazine.com/1997/11/books.html; Edith Grossman http://www.criticasmagazine.com/blog/810000481/post/640021064.html; and Qui Xialong http://januarymagazine.com/profiles/QiuXiaolong.html
About Me
- Subversive Scribe
- Suzanne Jill Levine, director of Translation Studies at the University of California in Santa Barbara, is general editor of Penguin Classics’ five-volume series of the works of Jorge Luis Borges, which will be published this year. An eminent translator, scholar and critic of Latin American literature, her books including a literary biography of Manuel Puig and The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction, reissued recently by Dalkey Archive Press.