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Alberto Manguel

Argentina (b.1948)

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, and educated there. He has an international reputation as a polyglot anthopologist, translator and editor of great gifts ('both enthusiastic and meticulous... with a brilliant strong natural taste', 'Guardian'). His works in English include 'Black Water: the Flamingo Anthology of Fantastic Literature' and (with Craig Stephenson) 'In Another Part of the Forest: the Flamingo Anthology of Gay Literature'. His highly acclaimed novel, 'News from a Foreign Country Came', won the McKitterick Prize in 1992.

Novels

   The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980)
   News from a Foreign Country Came (1991)
   Stevenson Under the Palm Trees (2003)
   All Men are Liars (2010)

Collections

In Another Part of the Forest (1968) (with Craig Stephenson)

Anthologies edited

   Black Water (1983)
   The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (1984)
   Soho Square 3 (1984)
   Other Fires (1985)
   Dark Arrows (1985)
   Evening Games (1987)
   Black Water 2 (1990)
   By the Light of the Glow-Worm Lamp (1991)
   Canadian Mystery Stories (1991)
   White Fire (1991)
   The Gates of Paradise (1993)
   Meanwhile In Another Part Of The Forest (1994) (with Craig Stephenson)
   The Second Gates of Paradise (1996)
   Fathers and Sons (1998)
   Mothers and Daughters (1998)
   The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005)
   The Penguin Book Of Christmas Stories (2005)

Non fiction

   Into the Looking-Glass Wood (1985)
   A History Of Reading (1996)
   Reading Pictures (2000)
   With Borges (2004)
   A Reading Diary (2004)
   Kipling (2005)
   The Library at Night (2006)
   A Room Full of Toys (2006)
   Magic Land of Toys (2006)
   The City of Words (2007)
   Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey (2007)
   The Blind Bookkeeper (2008)
   A Reader on Reading (2010)
   The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm (2013)
   Curiosity (2015)
   Packing My Library (2018)
   Fabulous Monsters (2019)
   The Overdiscriminating Lover (2021)
   A Return (2021)

Alberto Manguel recommends

The Facts Behind Helsinki Roccamatios (1991)
Yann Martel
"Those who would believe that the art of fiction is moribund--let them read Yann Martel with astonishment, delight and gratitude."

Soldiers of Salamis (2003)
Javier Cercas
"Ceras has succeeded, with one perfectly crafted book, in single-handedly redeeming the epic genre."

What Casanova Told Me (2004)
Susan Swan
"Susan Swan has given us a great romantic novel. What Casanova Told Me is a graceful and literate meditation on the uneasy relationship between the New World and the Old, on the gossip of history, and on the nature of love."

Mirrors (2009)
Eduardo Galeano
"Heroes rub shoulders with villains and apes in Eduardo Galeano's magical history of mankind."

The Road to Wanting (2010)
Wendy Law-Yone
"A hauntingly beautiful book."

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