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Alberto Manguel is a Canadian writer, translator, editor, and critic. Born in Buenos Aires, he has since resided in Israel, Argentina, Europe, the South Pacific, and Canada. — biography from Curiosity
A History of Reading 3,660 copies, 52 reviews
The Library at Night (Author) 2,555 copies, 66 reviews
A Reader on Reading 489 copies, 10 reviews
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (Editor) 478 copies, 8 reviews
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (Author) 418 copies, 15 reviews
The City of Words 289 copies, 7 reviews
Curiosity (Author) 230 copies, 3 reviews
With Borges 226 copies, 4 reviews
All Men Are Liars 180 copies, 6 reviews
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (Editor) 148 copies, 3 reviews
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees 143 copies, 7 reviews
Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women (Editor & Translator) 117 copies, 5 reviews
The Gates of Paradise (Editor) 109 copies, 2 reviews
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (Editor) 71 copies, 2 reviews
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (Editor) 31 copies, 1 review
Relatos (Editor) 31 copies
The Library Book 30 copies, 1 review
Amante Detalhista, O 27 copies, 1 review
Fathers & Sons 26 copies
Canadian Mystery Stories (Editor) 23 copies
Penguin Book Of Summer Stories 20 copies, 1 review
El regreso 9 copies
Le Livre des Eloges 6 copies, 2 reviews
Kipling: A Brief Biography 5 copies, 1 review
L' Apocalisse secondo Dürer 3 copies, 1 review
Baska Atesler 3 copies
Curiosidad 2 copies
Adolescenza 2 copies
Dönüs 1 copy
O Regresso 1 copy
Bestiario 1 copy
The Secret Supper (Translator, some editions) 1,674 copies, 48 reviews
Plain Tales from the Hills (Preface, some editions) 1,291 copies, 13 reviews
Mist (Introduction, some editions) 1,164 copies, 23 reviews
Bad Trips (Contributor) 225 copies, 6 reviews
The Solitudes (Introduction, some editions) 203 copies
The Merciful Women (Translator, some editions) 201 copies, 6 reviews
Die unendliche Bibliothek: Erzählungen (Fischer Taschenbibliothek) (Editor and Afterword, some editions) 31 copies
The Imagined Land (Introduction, some editions) 25 copies
Slightly Foxed 34: Return to Arcadia (Contributor) 24 copies
Las bibliotecas de Dédalo (Foreword, some editions) 15 copies, 1 review

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Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires and settled in France. He is a member of the Writer's Union of Canada, PEN, and a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation, and has been named an Officer of the French Order of Arts and Letters. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Liège in Belgium and the Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, England. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and also won the Germán Sánchez Ruipérez Prize (Spain) and the Prix Roger Caillois (France) for the ensemble of his work, which has been translated into more than thirty languages. [from My Name is Victoria (2011)]
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