This is the standard edition slipcase of the calendar. For the special edition slipcase please go here. We are pleased to announce that the Short Story Advent Calendar is back—but with a new twist. This time around, we’ve recruited one of our very favourite writers and readers to curate a unique globetrotting literary adventure. Edited and introduced by Alberto Manguel, the 2021 Short Story Advent Calendar spans the globe—from Canada to Australia, Africa to Scandinavia—featuring contemporary and classic works alike. Contributors include: Marcel Aymé (France) Aleksandar Hemon (Bosnia) José Saramago (Portugal) Muriel Spark (Scotland) Leo Tolstoy (Russia) and 20 other writers from 20 other countries!
Author
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.
