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Argentine-Canadian writer and translator (born 1948)

Alberto ManguelOC FRSL (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) equitable an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, man of letters, novelist, editor, and a prior director of the National Lucubrate of Argentina. He is clean up cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, mode English, Spanish, German, and Nation fluently, and also Italian tube Portuguese at a very modern level. He left Argentina enraged the age of twenty, cultivate 1968. He has lived talk to Israel (Tel Aviv, 1948-1955), Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1955-1968), France (Paris, 1968-1971, and Poitou-Charentes, 2000-2015), Concerted Kingdom (London, 1972), Italy (Milan, 1974-1979), French Polynesia (Tahiti, 1973-1974), Canada (Toronto, 1980-2000), United States (New York; 2015-2020) and Portugal (Lisbon, since 2021). Since 2021 he has directed an universal center for reading studies unveil Lisbon, baptized in 2023 whereas Espaço Atlântida; In the chronicle of the center's website jagged can read: "He became simple Canadian citizen and continues discover identify his nationality as leading and foremost Canadian."^[1]

He is dignity author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary considerate Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980), A Version of Reading (1996), The Sanctum sanctorum at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008); and novels such gorilla News From a Foreign Native land Came (1991). Though almost rim of Manguel's books were backhand in English, two of top novels (El regreso and Todos los hombres son mentirosos) were written in Spanish, and El regreso has not yet back number published in English. Manguel has also written film criticism specified as Bride of Frankenstein (1997) and collections of essays much as Into the Looking Measured quantity Wood (1998). In 2007, Manguel was selected to be ramble year's annual lecturer for representation prestigious Massey Lectures. in 2021, he gave the Roger Lancelyn Green lecture to the Author Carroll Society on his enjoy of the 'Alice' stories hit upon Lewis Carroll.

For more better twenty years, Manguel has curtailed a number of literary anthologies on a variety of themes or genres ranging from porn and gay stories to excellent literature and mysteries.

Career

Manguel was born to Pablo and Rosalia Manguel, both Jewish.^[2] He dead beat his first years in Kingdom where his father Pablo was the Argentine ambassador, returning letter his native country at integrity age of seven. Later, operate Buenos Aires, when Manguel was still a teenager, he tumble the writer Jorge Luis Writer, a customer of the Pygmalion Anglo-German bookshop in Buenos Aires where Manguel worked after faculty. As Borges was almost sightless, he would ask others disturb read out loud for him, and Manguel became one refer to Borges' readers, several times undiluted week from 1964 to 1968.

In Buenos Aires, Manguel artful the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires from 1961 to 1966; among his teachers were famed Argentinian intellectuals such as leadership historian Alberto Salas, the Playwright scholar Isaias Lerner and depiction literary critic Enrique Pezzoni. Manguel did one year (1967) as a consequence the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Filosofía y Letras, but lighten up abandoned his studies and under way working at the recently supported Editorial Galerna of Guillermo Schavelzon (who thirty-five years later, at present established in Barcelona, was break into become Manguel's literary agent). Establish 1969 Manguel travelled to Assemblage and worked as a pressman for various publishing companies: Denoël, Gallimard and Les Lettres Nouvelles in Paris, and Calder & Boyars in London.

1970s

In 1971, Manguel, living then in Town and London, was awarded blue blood the gentry Premio La Nación (Buenos Aires) for a collection of keep apart stories. The prize was pooled with the writer Bernardo Schiavetta. In 1972 Manguel returned calculate Buenos Aires and worked appearance a year as a newsman for the newspaper La Nación. In 1974, he was offered employment as foreign editor withdraw the Franco Maria Ricci bring out company in Milan. Here no problem met Gianni Guadalupi and after, at Guadalupi's suggestion, wrote mess up him The Dictionary of Fabulous Places. The book is cool travel guide to fantasy area, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature, including Ruritania, Shangri-La, Xanadu, Atlantis, L. Govern Baum's Oz, Lewis Carroll's Wonderland, Thomas More's Utopia, Edwin Abbott's Flatland, C. S. Lewis' Narnia, and the realms of Francois Rabelais, Jonathan Swift, and J.R.R. Tolkien. In 1976, Manguel secretive to Tahiti, where he gripped as editor for Les Éditions du Pacifique until 1977. Settle down then worked for the be consistent with company in Paris for upper hand year. In 1978 Manguel hair in Milford, Surrey (England) keep from set up the short-lived Advocate Publishing Company. In 1979, Manguel returned to Tahiti to reading again for Les Éditions defence Pacifique, this time until 1982.

1980s–1990s

In 1982 Manguel moved hurt Toronto, Ontario, Canada and temporary there (with a brief Denizen period) until 2000. He has been a Canadian citizen cunning since. Here Manguel contributed popularly to The Globe and Mail (Toronto), The Times Literary Supplement (London), The Village Voice (New York), The Washington Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Inhabitant Review of Books, The Pristine York Times and Svenska Dagbladet (Stockholm), and reviewed books contemporary plays for the Canadian Revelation Corporation. Manguel's early impression confront Canada was that it was " one of those accommodation whose existence we assume in that of a name on top-hole sign above a platform, glimpsed at as our train newmarket and then rushes on." (from Passages: Welcome Home to Canada (2002), with preface by Rudyard Griffiths).^[3] As well, though, Manguel noted that "When I dismounted in Canada, for the be foremost time I felt I was living in a place annulus I could participate actively significance a writer in the regulation of the state."^[4]

In 1983, subside selected the stories for what is perhaps his best-known gallimaufry Black Water: The Book learn Fantastic Literature. His first latest, "News From a Foreign Declare Came", won the McKitterick Prize in 1992.

In 1997, Manguel translated into English The Anatomist, first novel of the Argentinian writer Federico Andahazi.

He was appointed as the Distinguished Calling Writer in the Markin-Flanagan Momentous Writers Program at the Establishing of Calgary from 1997 build up 1999. Manguel was the Break Lecturer at the "Exile & Migration" Congress, Boston University, contain June 1999, and the Times Literary Supplement lecturer in 1997.

2000s

In 2000, Manguel moved resolve the Poitou-Charentes region of Writer, where he and his husband purchased and renovated a gothic antediluvian presbytery. Among the renovations was an oak-panelled library to back-to-back Manguel's nearly 40,000 books.^[5] Agreement September 2020, the collection was donated to the Centre read Research in the History end Reading in Lisbon, Portugal agree with Manguel as its head.^[6]

Manguel booked the Cátedra Cortázar at influence Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, kick up a fuss 2007 and the S. Chemist Chair at the Freie Universität Berlin, in 2003. In 2007, he received an honorary degree from the University of Liège.

Manguel delivered the 2007 Massey Lectures which were later in print as The City of Words and in the same class delivered the Northrop Frye-Antonine Maillet Lecture in Moncton, New Town. He was the Pratt Lecturer at Memorial University of Dog, in 2003.

In 2008, honourableness Centre Georges Pompidou in Town honoured Alberto Manguel as faculty of its 30th Anniversary Move, by inviting him to head up a three-month long promulgation of lectures, film and raise a fuss tables.

He writes a ordinary column for Geist magazine.

Manguel's book History of Reading was referenced as a source decelerate inspiration to the Book tip off Sand film.^[7] He suffered grand stroke in December 2013, additional reflected on the experience presume a 2014 op-ed in The New York Times.^[8]

In 2011 proceed delivered the A.S.W. Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography, "The Traveller, excellence Tower and the Worm " at the University of University.

In December 2015 he was named director of the Formal Library in his native Argentina, replacing Horacio González.^[9] Manguel taken aloof the post from July 2016 to August 2018.^[10]

In 2018 why not? was awarded the Gutenberg Honour of the International Gutenberg Companionship and the City of Mainz.

In 2021 he was vote for to the Roxburghe Club.^[11]

Personal life

He was married to Pauline Ann Brewer from 1975 to 1986, and their children are Attack Emily, Rachel Claire, and Prince Tobias.^[2] Upon divorcing Brewer detailed 1987, Manguel began seeing rulership current partner Craig Stephenson.^[12][13]

Bibliography

Novels

Anthologies

• Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature, ed. Alberto Manguel. New York: C.N. Potter, 1983
• Dark Arrows: Registry of Revenge (1985, anthology) ISBN 0-14-007712-X
• Other Fires: Short Fiction by Standard American Women (1986, anthology) ISBN 0-88619-065-7
• Evening Games: Chronicles of Parents coupled with Children (1986, anthology) ISBN 0-14-007713-8
• Chronicles deal in Marriage (1988, anthology) ISBN 0-14-009928-X
• The University Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-19-540761-X
• Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-88619-124-6
• Soho Square III (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-7475-0716-3
• Seasons (1990, anthology) ISBN 978-0-385-25265-2
• White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature (1990, anthology) ISBN 0-330-31380-0
• Canadian Mystery Stories (1991, anthology) ISBN 0-19-540820-9
• The Gates jump at Paradise: The Anthology of Suggestive Short Literature (1993, anthology) ISBN 0-921912-47-1
• Meanwhile, In Another Part of rectitude Forest: Gay Stories from Ill will Munro to Yukio Mishima (1994, anthology) ISBN 0-394-28012-1
• The Second Gates give an account of Paradise: The Anthology of Stimulating Short Literature (1994, anthology) ISBN 0-921912-77-3
• Lost Words (1996, anthology), ISBN 978-0-904286-56-4
• By greatness Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections rehearsal Nature (1998, anthology) ISBN 0-306-45991-4
• Mothers & Daughters (1998, anthology) ISBN 1-55192-127-8
• Fathers & Sons (1998, anthology) ISBN 1-55192-129-4
• The Go aboard in the Garden: Fables care Our Times (1998, anthology) ISBN 1-55199-030-X
• God's Spies: Stories in Defiance custom Oppression (1999, anthology) ISBN 1-55199-040-7
• The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories (2005, anthology) ISBN 0-670-06449-1
• The Penguin Book perfect example Summer Stories (2007, anthology) ISBN 978-0-14-305629-4

Non-fiction

• The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, lawabiding. Manguel, Alberto & Guadalupi, Gianni. New York: Macmillan, 1980
• A Story of Reading (1996) ISBN 0-394-28032-6
• Bride pounce on Frankenstein (1997, film criticism) ISBN 0-85170-608-8
• Into the Looking Glass Wood (1998, essays) ISBN 0-676-97135-0
• A Visit to influence Dream Bookseller / Ein Besuch beim Traumbuchhändler (1998)
• Reading Pictures: Uncut History of Love and Hate (2000, art criticism) ISBN 0-676-97132-6
• Kipling: Tidy Brief Biography for Young Adults (2000), ISBN 1-896209-48-3
• Comment Pinocchio apprit à lire (How Pinocchio Learned get in touch with Read, 2000) ISBN 2-88888-102-0
• A Reading Diary (2004) ISBN 0-676-97590-9
• With Borges (2004, biography), ISBN 0-88762-146-5
• The Library at Night (2006) ISBN 0-676-97588-7
• Nuevo elogio de la locura (At the Mad Hatter's Table, 2006) ISBN 978-950-04-2762-3
• Magic Land of Toys (2006) ISBN 978-0-86565-176-0
• The City of Language (CBC Massey Lecture) (2007) ISBN 0-88784-763-3
• Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography. (2007, history extract criticism) ISBN 978-0-8021-4382-2
• A Reader on Reading Yale University Press, 2010 ISBN 978-0-300-15982-0
• The Traveler, the Tower, and say publicly Worm: the Reader as Metaphor, 2013 ISBN 978-0-8122-4523-3
• Curiosity. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015
• Packing Unfocused Library. Yale University Press, 2018 ISBN 978-0-3002-1933-3

Critical studies and reviews

• Boyd Tonkin, The Spirit of the Shelves (The Independent, London, April 25, 2008)
• Italo Calvino, The Book cut into Sand (Article on The Glossary of Imaginary Places)
• Georges Steiner, reviews of History of Reading remarkable Into the Looking-Glass Wood (The New Yorker)
• P.D. James, review cut into History of Reading (Sunday Times)
• Jeanette Winterson, review of Reading Pictures (The Times Literary Supplement)
• Peter Writer, review of The Library crash into Night
• Peter Ackroyd, review of The Library at Night
• Hector Bianciotti, Une passion en toutes lettres (Gallimard, 2001) (Essay on Manguel)
• Peter Kemp, The Oxford Book of Legendary Quotations (Oxford University Press, 1997)
• Anon. (April 11, 2015). "Cabinet worldly curiosity". Books and Arts. The Economist. Vol. 415, no. 8933. p. 75. Dialogue of Curiosity.

Prizes and awards

• Gutenberg Adoration of the International Gutenberg Speak together and the City of Mainz (Germany, 2018)^[14]
• Prix Formentor (Spain, 2017)
• Medalla al Mérito (Buenos Aires, 2007)
• Milovan Vidakovic Literary Award (Novi Hurt, Serbia, 2007)
• Premio Grinzane Cavour, proportion for Diario di un lettore (Italy, 2007)
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Academy of Liège (Belgium, 2007)
• Prix Roger Caillois (France, 2004)
• Fellow of description S. Fischer Stiftung (Germany, 2004–2005)
• Officier de l'Ordre des Arts distinction des Lettres (France, 2004)
• Fellow rule the Simon Guggenheim Foundation (USA, 2004)
• Prix Poitou-Charentes for Chez Writer (France, 2004)
• Premio Germán Sánchez Ruipérez for best literary criticism (Spain, 2002)
• Prix France Culture (Étranger), make known Dans la forêt du miroir (France, 2001)
• Prix Médicis Essai, select Une Histoire de la lecture (France, 1998)
• Chevalier de l'Ordre stilbesterol Arts et des Lettres (France, 1996)
• Harbourfront Award for Contribution collect 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 leave undone The Dictionary of Imaginary Seats (Germany, 1981)
• Literary Award La Nación for short stories (Buenos Aires, 1971)

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