Notes from the Sea

About Marjorie Agosin

Marjorie Agosín is a Chilean-American poet and scholar whose work focuses on social justice feminism and memory. Her publications include At the Threshold of Memory: New & Selected Poems (2003) The Light of Desire (2010) and I Lived on Butterfly Hill (2014) a young adult novel which won the Pura Belpre medal given by the American Library Association. She has received numerous honors and awards including a Jeanette Rankin Award in Human Rights a United Nations Leadership Award for Human Rights the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor from the Chilean government and the Dr. Fritz Redlich Global Mental Health and Human Rights Award. She is the Luella LaMer Slaner Professor in Latin American studies and a professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Suzanne Jill Levines books include The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (Graywolf reissued by Dalkey Archive) Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (FSG) and two poetry chapbooks. An eminent translator whose career began in the early 1970s she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American literary works. Editor and co-translator of a five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010) her most recent translation Guadalupe Nettels Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She currently is writing a translators memoir.