Diesel, A Bookstore in Brentwood is very excited to present Suzanne Jill Levine and Efrain Kristal as they read from, discuss and sign a series of five collections by Jorge Luis Borges, each containing material previously unpublished in English - The Sonnets, Poems of the Night, On Argentina, On Writing and On Mysticism - on Thursday, September 23 at 7pm. Revered for his magnificent works of fiction and poetry, Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) published numerous collections of poems, essays, and fiction and received various literary awards over the course of his career, including the International Publishers’ Prize, the Jerusalem Prize, and the Alfonso Reyes Prize. Suzanne Jill Levine (Borges series general editor) is a professor of Latin American literature and translation studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the distinguished translator of such innovative Spanish American writers as Jorge Luis Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Manuel Puig, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, and Julio Cortázar. She lives in Santa Barbara, California. Efraín Kristal is a professor of Spanish and comparative literature at UCLA and the editor and author of the introduction and notes for Poems of the Night.