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Alberto Manguel
AuthorBooks · Second handSince 1948
Alberto Manguel 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, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. 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."
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Birth
1948
Death
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First book
1980
Years writing
46
Alberto Manguel is a versatile Argentine-Canadian author whose work spans writing, translation, and editing.
His book 'A History of Reading' is one of his most internationally acclaimed works.
Throughout his prolific career, he has published nearly 250 works exploring the universe of books.
His fascination with libraries is captured in his book 'The Library at Night', where he reflects on these mythical spaces.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1948, Manguel has dedicated his life to being a tireless advocate for the written word.