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Translator: Suzanne Jill Levine
Author: Silvina Ocampo
Title: The Promise
Language: Spanish
Country: Uruguay
Publisher: City Lights Bookstore
Sponsoring Institution(s): Programa Sur, Argentina
Description of event: Juan Carlos Onetti and Silvina Ocampo with Suzanne Jill Levine

Bios:
Levine is the daring translator of many of Latin America’s most formally inventive writers— Julio Cortazar, Jorge Luis Borges, Manuel Puig, Severo Sarduy, Cristina Rivera Garza and others. Her latest translation, for Seven Stories Press, is Guadalupe Nettel's Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories." She has long argued that translation is best practiced as a form of inventive artistry rather than dutiful technique.

NYRB Review of Silvina Ocampo's The Promise and Forgotten Journey April 23.
Gabe Habash, author and fiction editor of Publisher Weekly, delights: "Silvina Ocampo’s The Promise, which she spent 25 years perfecting, is one of my favorite 2019 books. It’s one of the most hopeful novels I’ve read in a long time, about the necessity of storytelling and the power of the mind."

"Silvina Ocampo’s fiction is wondrous, heart-piercing, and fiercely strange. Her fabulism is as charming as Borges’s. Her restless sense of invention foregrounds the brilliant feminist work of writers like Clarice Lispector and Samanta Schweblin. It’s thrilling to have work of this magnitude finally translated into English, head spinning and thrilling."—Alyson Hagy, author of Scribe

incidental music by Robert Moreland