Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel is a writer who was born in 1948 in Buenos Aires, grew up in Israel (where his father was the Argentinian ambassador) and has resided in various countries all over the world, including 20 years in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He is currently a resident of Vienne, France.
A turning point in Manguel's life came when he was still an adolescent working during his school holidays at a bookshop in Buenos Aires: The author Jorge Luis Borges invited the boy to come after his job to Borges' flat to read for him, something Manguel did for many years, 3 or 4 times a week.
Later, Manguel became famous thanks to his History of Reading. He has also written novels and some non-fiction works, but is well-known as an editor of literary anthologies.
Works
- The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980), ISBN 0025464000
- Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983, anthology), ISBN 0517552698
- *Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990, anthology), ISBN 0886191246
- Dark Arrows: Chronicles of Revenge (1985, anthology), ISBN 014007712X
- Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women (1986, anthology), ISBN 0886190657
- Evening Games: Chronicles of Parents and Children (1986, anthology), ISBN 0140077138
- Chronicles of Marriage (1988, anthology), ISBN 014009928X
- The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (1990, anthology), ISBN 019540761X
- Soho Square III (1990, anthology), ISBN 0747507163
- News From a Foreign Country Came (1991, novel), ISBN 0517583437
- Canadian Mystery Stories (1991, anthology), ISBN 0195408209
- The Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature (1993, anthology), ISBN 0921912471
- *The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature (1994, anthology), ISBN 0921912773
- Meanwhile, In Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima (1994, anthology), ISBN 0394280121
- A History of Reading (1996, non-fiction), ISBN 0394280326
- Bride of Frankenstein (1997, film criticism), ISBN 0851706088
- Into the Looking Glass Wood (1998, essays), ISBN 0676971350
- By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature (1998, anthology), ISBN 0306459914
- Mothers & Daughters (1998, anthology), ISBN 1551921278
- Fathers & Sons (1998, anthology), ISBN 1551921294
- The Ark in the Garden: Fables for Our Times (1998, anthology), ISBN 155199030X
- God's Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression (1999, anthology), ISBN 1551990407
- Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate (2000, art criticism), ISBN 0676971326
- Kipling: A Brief Biography for Young Adults (2000), ISBN 1896209483
- Stevenson under the Palm Trees (2003, novel), ISBN 0887621384
- A Reading Diary (2004), ISBN 0676975909
- [With Borges] (2004, biography), ISBN 0887621465
- The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories (2005, anthology), ISBN 0670064491
- The Library at Night (2005), ISBN 0676975887
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