Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (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). Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.
Books
Curiosity
2015
Bibliotecas
2011
City of Words
2007
Into The Looking-Glass Wood
Essays on Words and the World
1998
Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey
A Biography
2007
Para cada tiempo hay un libro
2014
Stevenson Under The Palm Trees
2000
Story of a Nation
Defining Moments in our History
2001
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
1980
The Overdiscriminating Lover
2005
A Reading Diary
2004
داخل المكتبة .. خارج العالم
2015
Packing My Library
An Elegy and Ten Digressions
2018
Yabanci Bir Ulkeden Haber Geldi
1991
The Library at Night
2006
The 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar
2021
Reading Pictures
A History of Love and Hate
2000
The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories
1990
A History of Reading
1996
A Reader on Reading
2010
With Borges
2002
Bride of Frankenstein
1997
Maimonides
Faith in Reason
2023
All Men Are Liars
2008
Fabulous Monsters
Dracula, Alice, Superman, and Other Literary Friends
2019
The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm
The Reader as Metaphor
2013
Penguin Book of Summer Stories
2007
