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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 Dicti...view moreInternationally 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. In 2000, Manguel moved to the Poitou-Charentes region of France, where he and his partner purchased and renovated a medieval farmhouse. 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. 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.view less
Books by Alberto Manguel
The City of Words En las montañas de Holanda Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Panic, I'm Islamic: Words and Pictures on How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Alien Next Door Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Blind Bookkeeper (or Why Homer Must Be Blind) / Le comptable aveugle (l'Incontournable cécité d'Homère) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBibliotecas ajenas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDon Quijote y sus fantasmas Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5El viajero, la torre y la larva: El lector como metáfora Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings100 plegarias a Philip Dick: Primera parte Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Audiobooks by Alberto Manguel
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Curiosity Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5