Collection ID: LMC 2518
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Summary

Creator:
Levine, Suzanne Jill.
Abstract:
Consists of the papers of translator and author, Suzanne Jill Levine.
Extent:
7 Boxes
Language:
Materials are in English
Preferred citation:

[Item] Levine mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Suzanne Jill Levine was born in 1946 in New York City. Levine is a freelance translator and author, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese as well as a lecturer on literary translation at numerous universities across the country. She has translated authors Adolfo Bioy-Casares, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortazar, Carlos Fuentes and others. She was translator and friend of Manuel Puig and wrote his biography Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions (Farrer, Straus, and Giroux: New York, 2000).

Scope and Content:

Consists of the papers of translator and author, Suzanne Jill Levine. The correspondence consists of photocopies of Manuel Puig's correspondence as well as Levine's own correspondence with Puig and others. The writings are mostly Levine's translations and her critical work on Puig and her Latin America Fiction and Poetry in Translation (Center for Inter-American Relations: New York, 1970).

Acquisition information:
Purchase. 2005
Arrangement:

The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Writings. The collection is arranged as received.

Physical location:
ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility)

Access

RESTRICTIONS:

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TERMS OF ACCESS:

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item] Levine mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu