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  • Alberto Manguel OC FRSL is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of.
  • He was raised in Israel where his father was the Argentine ambassador, and in 1984 he became a Canadian citizen.
  • Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is one of the world's most renowned bibliophiles.

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    Alberto Manguel

    Interviewed by Charles-Adam Foster-Simard

    Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948 and is one of the world’s most renowned bibliophiles. He is also an accomplished novelist, essayist, translator, editor, and anthologist—he has written and edited over 40 books since 1980, including reader favourites like The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, A History of Reading, The Library at Night, and All Men Are Liars. In 2007, he delivered the CBC Massey Lectures titled The City of Words, which was published as a book by House of Anansi Press. Manguel currently lives in France, in a renovated medieval presbytery that also houses his 30,000 books.

    I approached Mr. Manguel by letter in order to ask him if he would be amenable to this interview. He informed me that he has recently acquired an email address and agreed to answer my questions electronically.

    You moved a great deal throughout your life. You were born and grew up in Argentina (and in Israel for seve

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    Alberto Manguel

    For me, words on a page give the world coherence…Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be.
    —Alberto Manguel

    Somehow my interior-design sensibility, after a number of domestic upheavals, shifted (“matured” would not exactly do) from a improvised undergraduate style to a bourgeois modernity with black leather, glass, and steel, then finally to a mimicry of my favorite haunts—namely the ramshackle used/old-bookstore look, with bookshelves in every nook and cranny, overflowing with books both new and old. And it is because of this style, which favors the spirit and, perhaps, the patience of an archaeologist, that I lost and recently (and miraculously) found this November 2001 conversation with Alberto Manguel.

    Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, was educated there, and was a friend of Jorge Luis Borges late in Borges’s life. He was raised in Israel where his father was the Argentine ambassador, an

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    Alberto Manguel

    Argentine-Canadian writer and translator (born 1948)

    Alberto ManguelOC FRSL (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, författare av essäer, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He fryst vatten a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel (Tel Aviv, 1948-1955), Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1955-1968), France (Paris, 1968-1971, and Poitou-Charentes, 2000-2015), United 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 international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: