Alberto Manguel March 13, 1948 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nationality
Argentinian, Canadian, French
Period
1980–present
Genre
Novel, essay
Notable works
A History of Reading, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
Alberto ManguelOC FRSL (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, French and, fluently, also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel (Tel Aviv, 1948-1955), Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1955-1968), France (Paris, 1968-1971, and Poitou-Charentes, 2000-2015), United Kingdom (London, 1972), Italy (Milan, 1974-1979), French Polynesia (Tahiti, 1973-1974), Canada (Toronto, 1980-2000), United States (New York; 2015-2020) and Portugal (Lisbon, since 2021). Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."[1]
He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980), A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008); and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991). Though almost all of Manguel's books were written in English, two of his novels (El regreso and Todos los hombres son mentirosos) were written in Spanish, and El regreso has not yet been published in English. Manguel has also written film criticism such as Bride of Frankenstein (1997) and collections of essays such as Into the Looking Glass Wood (1998). In 2007, Manguel was selected to be that year's annual lecturer for the prestigious Massey Lectures. in 2021, he gave the Roger Lancelyn Green lecture to the Lewis Carroll Society on his love of the 'Alice' stories from Lewis Carroll.
For more than twenty years, Manguel has edited a number of literary anthologies on a variety of themes or genres ranging from erotica and gay stories to fantastic literature and mysteries.
AlbertoManguel OC FRSL (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former...
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the richest literary prizes in the world. The English translation by AlbertoManguel was published in 2006. It is set while Leonardo da Vinci is painting...
manuscript to the fictional canon oversight process for the 1632 series. AlbertoManguel and Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, New York :...
have spoken of their indebtedness to the novel include Yann Martel, AlbertoManguel, and Tim Parks, who wrote the introduction to the 2000 Penguin edition...
to Know". The Edvocate. Retrieved 2023-03-09. "The Silent Readers". AlbertoManguel, Chapter 2 of A History of Reading (New York; Viking, 1996). Retrieved...
atlantique (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1982). The Atlantic Man, trans. AlbertoManguel (1993) La Maladie de la mort (Les Éditions de Minuit, 1982). The Malady...
Diome, Chahdortt Djavann, Nadine Gordimer, Amitav Ghosh, Marc Levy, AlbertoManguel, Anna Moi, Scott Momaday, Toni Morrison, Érik Orsenna, Gisèle Pineau...
Herbie Mann Dancing At 98'". Sun Sentinel. Retrieved June 18, 2023. AlbertoManguel, Ara Guler - Creating the 20th Century: 100 Artists, Writers and Thinkers...
country, includes several lists of proposed countries Worldbuilding AlbertoManguel & Gianni Guadalupi: The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. ISBN 0-15-626054-9...
thirty and settled in for good after his fifty-eighth birthday." From Manguel, Alberto (2006) With Borges. London: Telegram Books, pp. 15–16. The Borges poems...
Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980, 1987, 1999) is a book written by AlbertoManguel and Gianni Guadalupi. It takes the form of a catalogue of fantasy lands...
September" "Late Afternoon" "Paula" "Paula II" "The Furthermost Point" AlbertoManguel of The Guardian wrote that the book works as an introduction to Nooteboom...
and the Compass" called Spiderweb starring Nigel Hawthorne. In 1984, AlbertoManguel adapted "Death and the Compass" for the CBC Radio science fiction series...
(Mishima : A Vision of the Void), essay by Marguerite Yourcenar trans. by AlbertoManguel 2001 ISBN 0-226-96532-5) Yukio Mishima, Terror and Postmodern Japan...
English in 1985 through Farrar, Straus & Giroux, in translation by AlbertoManguel in collaboration with the author. Susan Slocum Hinerfeld of Los Angeles...
Malcolm 1997 Nesrine Malik 2023 David Malouf 2008 Norman Manea 2011 AlbertoManguel 2010 Philip Mansel 2010 Sarah Ladipo Manyika 2023 Patrick Marber 2002...
ISBN 0-8076-1365-7. 1996 Les Échelles du Levant 1996 Ports of Call, trans. AlbertoManguel. ISBN 1-86046-890-X. 2000 Le Périple de Baldassare 2002 Balthasar's...
inaugural Man Booker International Prize was judged by John Carey (Chair), AlbertoManguel and Azar Nafisi. The nominees were announced on 2 June 2005 at Georgetown...
for Education, England, DFE-57519-2012. 2012. "The Silent Readers". AlbertoManguel, Chapter 2 of A History of Reading (New York; Viking, 1996). Retrieved...
rather dark, antisocial mood) takes you." In a dissenting opinion AlbertoManguel, writing for The Guardian, finds the novel is, "at first mildly amusing...
2021. Online text—link is broken 2007 review Zapatista detective Review of the English translation, AlbertoManguel, The Guardian, 27 January 2007 v t e...
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