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Alberto Manguel (born March 13, 1948, in
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) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former Director of the
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. 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
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'' (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
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. 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
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on a variety of themes or genres ranging from erotica and gay stories to fantastic literature and mysteries.


Career

Manguel was born to Pablo and Rosalia Manguel, both Jewish. He spent his first years in
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where his father Pablo was the Argentine ambassador, returning to his native country at the age of seven. Later, in Buenos Aires, when Manguel was still a teenager, he met the writer
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, a customer of the Pygmalion Anglo-German bookshop in Buenos Aires where Manguel worked after school. As Borges was almost blind, he would ask others to read out loud for him, and Manguel became one of Borges' readers, several times a week from 1964 to 1968. In Buenos Aires, Manguel attended the
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from 1961 to 1966; among his teachers were notable Argentinian intellectuals such as the historian Alberto Salas, the Cervantes scholar Isaias Lerner and the literary critic Enrique Pezzoni. Manguel did one year (1967) at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Filosofía y Letras, but he abandoned his studies and started working at the recently founded Editorial Galerna o
Guillermo Schavelzon
(who thirty-five years later, now established in
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, was to become Manguel's literary agent). In 1969 Manguel travelled to Europe and worked as a reader for various publishing companies: Denoël, Gallimard and Les Lettres Nouvelles in
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, and Calder & Boyars in
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.


1970s

In 1971, Manguel, living then in Paris and London, was awarded the Premio La Nación (Buenos Aires) for a collection of short stories. The prize was shared with the writer Bernardo Schiavetta. In 1972 Manguel returned to Buenos Aires and worked for a year as a reporter for the newspaper
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. In 1974, he was offered employment as foreign editor at the Franco Maria Ricci publishing company in Milan. Here he met Gianni Guadalupi and later, at Guadalupi's suggestion, wrote with him ''
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places ''The Dictionary of Imaginary Places'' (1980, 1987, 1999) is a book written by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. It takes the form of a catalogue of fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature—"a Baedecker ...
''. The book is a travel guide to fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature, including ''
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'', ''
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'', ''Xanadu'', ''
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'',
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's ''Oz'',
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's ''Wonderland'',
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's ''Utopia'', Edwin Abbott's ''
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'',
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' ''Narnia'', and the realms of Francois Rabelais,
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, and
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. In 1976, Manguel moved to
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, where he worked as editor for Les Éditions du Pacifique until 1977. He then worked for the same company in Paris for one year. In 1978 Manguel settled in
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,
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(England) and set up the short-lived Ram Publishing Company. In 1979, Manguel returned to Tahiti to work again for Les Éditions du Pacifique, this time until 1982.


1980s–1990s

In 1982 Manguel moved to
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, Canada and lived there (with a brief European period) until 2000. He has been a Canadian citizen ever since. Here Manguel contributed regularly to ''
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'' (Toronto), ''
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'' (London), ''
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'' (
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), ''
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'', ''
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'', ''The Australian Review of Books'', ''
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'' and ''
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'' (
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), and reviewed books and plays for the
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. Manguel's early impression of Canada was that it was "...like one of those places whose existence we assume because of a name on a sign above a platform, glimpsed at as our train stops and then rushes on." (from Passages: Welcome Home to Canada (2002), with preface by Rudyard Griffiths). As well, though, Manguel noted that "When I arrived in Canada, for the first time I felt I was living in a place where I could participate actively as a writer in the running of the state." In 1983, he selected the stories for what is perhaps his best-known anthology '' Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature''. His first novel, "News From a Foreign Country Came", won the ''
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'' in 1992. In 1997, Manguel translated into English ''The Anatomist'', first novel of the Argentine writer
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. He was appointed as the Distinguished Visiting Writer in the '' Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Writers Program'' at the
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from 1997 to 1999. Manguel was the Opening Lecturer at the "Exile & Migration" Congress,
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, in June 1999, and the ''
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'' lecturer in 1997.


2000s

In 2000, Manguel moved to the
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region of France, where he and his partner purchased and renovated a medieval presbytery. Among the renovations was an oak-panelled library to house Manguel's nearly 40,000 books. In September 2020, the collection was donated to the Centre for Research in the History of Reading in
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, Portugal with Manguel as its head. Manguel held the ''Cátedra Cortázar'' at the
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,
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, in 2007 and the ''S. Fischer Chair'' at the
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, in 2003. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from the
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. Manguel delivered the 2007 ''
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'' which were later published as ''The City of Words'' and in the same year delivered the ''Northrop Frye-Antonine Maillet Lecture'' in
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,
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. He was the ''Pratt Lecturer'' at
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, in 2003. In 2008, the
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in Paris honoured Alberto Manguel as part of its 30th Anniversary Celebrations, by inviting him to set up a three-month long program of lectures, film and round tables. He writes a regular column for '' Geist'' magazine. Manguel's book ''History of Reading'' was referenced as a source of inspiration to the '' Book of Sand'' film. He suffered a
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in December 2013, and reflected on the experience in a 2014
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in ''The New York Times''. In December 2015 he was named director of the
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in his native Argentina, replacing Horacio González. Manguel held the post from July 2016 to August 2018.


Personal life

He was married to Pauline Ann Brewer from 1975 to 1986, and their children are Alice Emily, Rachel Claire, and Rupert Tobias. Upon divorcing Brewer in 1987, Manguel began seeing his current partner Craig Stephenson. He has been a member of the
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since 2021.


Bibliography


Novels

*''News from a Foreign Country Came''. New York: C. Potter, 1991 *''Stevenson Under the Palm Trees''. 2003. *''El regreso'' (''A Return''). 2005. *''Un amant très vétilleux'' (''The Overdiscriminating Lover''). 2005, *''Todos los hombres son mentirosos'' (''All Men Are Liars''). 2008.


Anthologies

*''Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature'', ed. Alberto Manguel. New York: C.N. Potter, 1983 *''Dark Arrows: Chronicles of Revenge'' (1985, anthology) *''Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women'' (1986, anthology) *''Evening Games: Chronicles of Parents and Children'' (1986, anthology) *''Chronicles of Marriage'' (1988, anthology) *''The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories'' (1990, anthology) *''Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic'' (1990, anthology) *''Soho Square III'' (1990, anthology) *''Seasons'' (1990, anthology) *''White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature'' (1990, anthology) *''Canadian Mystery Stories'' (1991, anthology) *''The Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature'' (1993, anthology) *''Meanwhile, In Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima'' (1994, anthology) *''The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature'' (1994, anthology) *''Lost Words'' (1996, anthology), *''By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature'' (1998, anthology) *''Mothers & Daughters'' (1998, anthology) *''Fathers & Sons'' (1998, anthology) *''The Ark in the Garden: Fables for Our Times'' (1998, anthology) *''God's Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression'' (1999, anthology) *''The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories'' (2005, anthology) *''The Penguin Book of Summer Stories'' (2007, anthology)


Non-fiction

*''The Dictionary of Imaginary Places'', ed. Manguel, Alberto & Guadalupi, Gianni. New York: Macmillan, 1980 *''A History of
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'' (1996) *''Bride of Frankenstein'' (1997, film criticism) *''Into the Looking Glass Wood'' (1998, essays) *''A Visit to the Dream Bookseller / Ein Besuch beim Traumbuchhändler'' (1998) *''Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate'' (2000, art criticism) *''Kipling: A Brief Biography for Young Adults'' (2000), *''Comment Pinocchio apprit à lire'' (''How Pinocchio Learned to Read'', 2000) *''A Reading Diary'' (2004)
''With Borges''
(2004, biography), *''The Library at Night'' (2006) *''Nuevo elogio de la locura'' (''At the Mad Hatter's Table'', 2006) *''Magic Land of Toys'' (2006) *''The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture)'' (2007) *''Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography''. (2007, history and criticism) *''A Reader on Reading'' Yale University Press, 2010 *''The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: the Reader as Metaphor'', 2013 *''Curiosity''. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015 *''Packing My Library''. Yale University Press, 2018


Critical studies and reviews

* Boyd Tonkin

(
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, London, April 25, 2008) *
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, ''The Book of Sand'' (Article on ''The Dictionary of Imaginary Places'') * Georges Steiner, reviews of ''History of Reading'' and ''Into the Looking-Glass Wood'' (''
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'') *
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, review of ''History of Reading'' (''
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'') *
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, review of ''Reading Pictures'' (''
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'') * Peter Conrad, review of ''The Library at Night'' *
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, review of ''The Library at Night'' *
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, ''Une passion en toutes lettres'' ( Gallimard, 2001) (Essay on Manguel) * Peter Kemp, ''The Oxford Book of Literary Quotations'' (
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, 1997) * Review of ''Curiosity''.


Prizes and awards

*
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(
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, 2018) *
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(Spain, 2017) * Medalla al Mérito (Buenos Aires, 2007) * Milovan Vidakovic Literary Award (
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, Serbia, 2007) *
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, essay for ''Diario di un lettore'' (Italy, 2007) * Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Liège (Belgium, 2007) *
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(France, 2004) * Fellow of the S. Fischer Stiftung (Germany, 2004–2005) * Officier de l'
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(France, 2004) * Fellow of the
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Foundation (USA, 2004) * Prix Poitou-Charentes for Chez Borges (France, 2004) * Premio Germán Sánchez Ruipérez for best literary criticism (Spain, 2002) * Prix
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(Étranger), for ''Dans la forêt du miroir'' (France, 2001) *
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, for ''Une Histoire de la lecture'' (France, 1998) * Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France, 1996) * Harbourfront Award for Contribution to the Arts (Canada, 1992) * Canadian Writers' Association Award, fiction (Canada, 1992) * McKitterick First Novel Award (UK, 1992) * Lewis Gallantière Translation Prize (honourable mention), American Translators Association (USA, 1986) * German Critics Award for Von Atlantis bis Utopia, German translation of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Germany, 1981) * Literary Award ''La Nación'' for short stories (Buenos Aires, 1971)


See also

* 2015 in literature


References


External links


manguel.com
Official website

* ttps://web.archive.org/web/20090520024142/http://www.geist.com/author/manguel-alberto Alberto Manguelat '' Geist''.com
Alberto Manguel
interviewed about his new book "A Reader on Reading".
Alberto Manguel Papers, Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Manguel, Alberto 1948 births People from Buenos Aires Prix Médicis essai winners Harbourfront Festival Prize winners Argentine emigrants to Canada Argentine male writers Argentine translators Canadian translators Canadian male novelists Canadian literary critics Canadian gay writers Living people Canadian anthologists Prix Roger Caillois recipients Canadian book editors Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Canadian LGBT novelists Officers of the Order of Canada Canadian male non-fiction writers 21st-century LGBT people Collège de France faculty