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Alberto Manguel

Internationally acclaimed as an anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, and editor, Alberto Manguel is the bestselling author of several award-winning books, including A Dictionary of Imaginary Places, with Gianni Guadalupi, and A History of Reading. Manguel grew up in Israel, where his father was the Argentinian ambassador.

In the mid-1980s, Manguel moved to Toronto where he lived for twenty years. Manguel's novel, News from a Foreign Country Came, won the McKitterick Prize in 1992. During the 1990s, he wrote regularly for the Globe & Mail (Toronto), the Times Literary Supplement (London), the Sydney Morning Herald, the Australian Review of Books, the New York Times, and the Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm). In 2000, Manguel moved to the Poitou-Charentes region of France, where he and his partner purchased and renovated a medieval farmhouse. Among the renovations is an oak-panelled library housing Manguel's collection of 30,000 books.

Célébrité internationale à plus d’un titre — il est anthologiste, traducteur, essayiste, romancier et éditeur — Alberto Manguel est l’auteur du Dictionnaire des lieux imaginaires, en collaboration avec Gianni Guadalupi, et d’une Histoire de la lecture, entre autres succès de librairie. Manguel a grandi en Israël où son père était ambassadeur de l’Argentine.

Au milieu des années 1980, Manguel s’installe à Toronto où il vivra pendant vingt ans. Il reçoit le McKitterick Prize en 1992 pour son roman News from a Foreign Country Came (Dernières nouvelles d'une terre abandonnée). Pendant les années 1990, il a été collaborateur régulier au Globe & Mail (Toronto), au Times Literary Supplement (Londres), au Sydney Morning Herald, au Australian Review of Books, au New York Times et au Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm). Depuis 2000, Manguel habite la région française de Poitou-Charentes, dans une maison de ferme du Moyen-Âge qu’il a achetée et remise à neuf avec son compagnon. Parmi les rénovations, une bibliothèque lambrissée de chêne qui abrite les 30 000 livres de la collection de Manguel.

Books by Alberto Manguel

Raymond Klibansky

A Life in Philosophy

by (author) Raymond Klibansky & Georges Leroux
translated by Peter Feldstein
foreword by Alberto Manguel

Death by Water

Poems (1968-1972)

by (author) Alberto Manguel
translated by Sarah Moses

A Return

by (author) Alberto Manguel

The Overdiscriminating Lover

by (author) Alberto Manguel

The Library Book

photographs by Thomas R. Schiff
text by Alberto Manguel

Stevenson Under the Palm Trees

A Novella

by (author) Alberto Manguel

With Borges

by (author) Alberto Manguel

Going Ashore

by (author) Mavis Gallant
introduction by Alberto Manguel

The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère)

by (author) Alberto Manguel

Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

edited by Alberto Manguel

The Library at Night

by (author) Alberto Manguel

Homers The Iliad And The Odyssey

by (author) Alberto Manguel

The City of Words

by (author) Alberto Manguel

Nomad's Hotel

Travels in Time and Space

by (author) Cees Nooteboom
introduction by Alberto Manguel
translated by Ann Kelland

Penguin Book of Summer Stories

edited by Alberto Manguel

Penguin Book of Christmas Stories

by (author) Alberto Editor Manguel
edited by Alberto Manguel

A Reading Diary

by (author) Alberto Manguel

Modern Classics Famous Last Words

by (author) Timothy Findley
foreword by Alberto Manguel

Reading Pictures

What We Think About When We Look at Art

by (author) Alberto Manguel

The Dictionary of Imaginary Places

by (author) Alberto Manguel & Gianni Guadalupi

Into The Looking-Glass Wood

Essays on Words and the World

by (author) Alberto Manguel

A History of Reading

by (author) Alberto Manguel

Such a Long Journey

by (author) Rohinton Mistry
afterword by Alberto Manguel