Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel was born on 13 March 1948 in Buenos Aires and spent his first years in Israel, where his father was ambassador. From 1964 to 1968 he read several times a week to Jorge Luis Borges, who was almost blind. Settled in Europe in 1969, then in Toronto from 1982 to 2000, he became a Canadian citizen, established himself in France and directed the Argentine National Library from 2016 to 2018. He is a member of the Argentine Academy of Letters.

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• EssayA History of ReadingAlberto Manguel · 1996Literature