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.