Her translations of the stories of Rajasthani writer Vijay Dan Detha, Chouboli and Other Stories, co-published by Katha (New Delhi) and Fordham University Press (New York) won the 2012 A.K. Ramanujan Award. In her current book project, Genres of Real Life: Mediating Stories of Injustice Across Languages she interrogates the category of the “literary” as it is applied when mediating the truth claims of first-person narratives.Suzanne Jill Levine is Director of Translation Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. A distinguished translator and literary