Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist 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), A History of Reading (1996), A Reading Diary (2004), The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008).
For over twenty years, Manguel has edited a number of literary anthologies on a variety of themes or genres ranging from erotica and gay stories to fantastic literature and mysteries.
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Novels
- News from a Foreign Country Came. New York: C. Potter, 1991
- Stevenson Under the Palm Trees. 2003. Template:ISBN
- El regreso (A Return). 2005. Template:ISBN
- Un amant très vétilleux (The Overdiscriminating Lover). 2005, Template:ISBN
- Todos los hombres son mentirosos (All Men Are Liars). 2008. Template:ISBN
Anthologies
- Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature, ed. Alberto Manguel. New York: C.N. Potter, 1983
- Dark Arrows: Chronicles of Revenge (1985, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women (1986, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Evening Games: Chronicles of Parents and Children (1986, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Chronicles of Marriage (1988, anthology) Template:ISBN
- The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (1990, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Soho Square III (1990, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Seasons (1990, anthology) Template:ISBN
- White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature (1990, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Canadian Mystery Stories (1991, anthology) Template:ISBN
- The Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature (1993, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Meanwhile, In Another Part of the Forest: Gay Stories from Alice Munro to Yukio Mishima (1994, anthology) Template:ISBN
- The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Literature (1994, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Lost Words (1996, anthology), Template:ISBN
- By the Light of the Glow-worm Lamp: Three Centuries of Reflections on Nature (1998, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Mothers & Daughters (1998, anthology) Template:ISBN
- Fathers & Sons (1998, anthology) Template:ISBN
- The Ark in the Garden: Fables for Our Times (1998, anthology) Template:ISBN
- God's Spies: Stories in Defiance of Oppression (1999, anthology) Template:ISBN
- The Penguin Book of Christmas Stories (2005, anthology) Template:ISBN
- The Penguin Book of Summer Stories (2007, anthology) Template:ISBN
Non-fiction
- The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, ed. Manguel, Alberto & Guadalupi, Gianni. New York: Macmillan, 1980
- A History of Reading (1996) Template:ISBN
- Bride of Frankenstein (1997, film criticism) Template:ISBN
- Into the Looking Glass Wood (1998, essays) Template:ISBN
- A Visit to the Dream Bookseller / Ein Besuch beim Traumbuchhändler (1998)
- Reading Pictures: A History of Love and Hate (2000, art criticism) Template:ISBN
- Kipling: A Brief Biography for Young Adults (2000), Template:ISBN
- Comment Pinocchio apprit à lire (How Pinocchio Learned to Read, 2000) Template:ISBN
- A Reading Diary (2004) Template:ISBN
- With Borges (2004, biography), Template:ISBN
- The Library at Night (2006) Template:ISBN
- Nuevo elogio de la locura (At the Mad Hatter's Table, 2006) Template:ISBN
- Magic Land of Toys (2006) Template:ISBN
- The City of Words (CBC Massey Lecture) (2007) Template:ISBN
- Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey: A Biography. (2007, history and criticism) Template:ISBN
- A Reader on Reading Yale University Press, 2010 Template:ISBN
- The Traveler, the Tower, and the Worm: the Reader as Metaphor, 2013 Template:ISBN
- Curiosity. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2015
- Packing My Library. Yale University Press, 2018 Template:ISBN
Critical studies and reviews
- Boyd Tonkin, The Spirit of the Shelves
- Italo Calvino, The Book of Sand (Article on The Dictionary of Imaginary Places)
- Georges Steiner, reviews of History of Reading and Into the Looking-Glass Wood (The New Yorker)
- P.D. James, review of History of Reading (Sunday Times)
- Jeanette Winterson, review of Reading Pictures (The Times Literary Supplement)
- Peter Conrad, review of The Library at Night
- Peter Ackroyd, review of The Library at Night
- Hector Bianciotti, Une passion en toutes lettres (Gallimard, 2001) (Essay on Manguel)
- Peter Kemp, The Oxford Book of Literary Quotations (Oxford University Press, 1997)
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A Brief History of Time, A Girl in Exile, A Good House, A Traveler from Altruria, Actes Sud, Alberto Ruy Sánchez, American Library in Paris, Armonía Somers, Arqtiq, Arthur Boyars, Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature, Book collecting, Brian Moore (novelist), Caprona (island), Curiosity, Death and the Compass, Disagreeable Tales, Eduardo Berti, Eugene Ivanov (artist), Exiled from Almost Everywhere, Federico Andahazi, Fictional universe, Fonseca Island, George Walker (printmaker), Glen Baxter (artist), Homero Aridjis, Hubert Nyssen, James Hanley (novelist), Jewish Lives, Jorge Luis Borges, Karoly Grosz (illustrator), Kingdoms of Elfin, Labyrinths (short story collection), Lilliput and Blefuscu, Looking-glass world, Luggnagg, Manguel, Marianna Gartner, Massey Lectures, Meccania, Myrna Kostash, Narnia (world), Nazi Literature in the Americas, Oriental Tales, Oscar Strasnoy, Peter Bush (translator), Philippe de Tarrazi, Ports of Call (Maalouf novel), Richard Outram, Richard Zimler, Royal Society of Literature, Shelagh Armstrong, Sinan Antoon, Steven Moore (author), Susan L. Mizruchi, The Dictionary of Imaginary Places, The Drawbridge, The Fixed Period, The Secret Supper, The Tartar Steppe, The Uncomfortable Dead, The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, Un siècle d'écrivains, Vladislav Bajac, Wonderland (fictional country), Yukio Mishima
