Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer, translator, editor and critic, born in Buenos Aires in 1948. He has published several novels, and non-fiction, including Packing My Library, Curiosity, With Borges, A History of Reading, The Library at Night, Fabulous Monsters and (together with Gianni Guadalupi) The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. He has received numerous international awards, among others the Guggenheim in 2004, Commander of the Order of Arts & Letters from France in 2014, the Formentor Prize and the Alfonso Reyes Prize in 2017, the Gutenberg Prize 2018 and Officer of the Order of Canada 2018. He is doctor honoris causa of the universities of Ottawa and York in Canada, Liège in Belgium, Anglo Ruskin in Cambridge, UK, and Poitiers in France. Until August of 2018 he was the director of the National Library of Argentina. He held the first chair of “Europe: languages and literatures” at the Collège de France 2021-2022. He is now the director of Espaço Atlântida, the Centro de Estudos da História da Leitura in Lisbon.

A History of Reading
New York, 1997

With Borges
Markham, 2002

The Library at Night
New Haven, 2009

Fabulous Monsters
New Haven, 2020