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Alberto Manguel

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115+ obres 14,690 Membres 277 Ressenyes 67 preferits

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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.
Crèdit de la imatge: Alberto Manguel in his library

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Obres de Alberto Manguel

Una historia de la lectura (1996) 3,788 exemplars
The Library at Night (2006) — Autor — 2,655 exemplars
Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions (2017) — Autor — 505 exemplars
A Reader on Reading (2010) 504 exemplars
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983) — Editor — 500 exemplars
The City of Words (2007) 297 exemplars
Curiosity (2000) — Autor — 246 exemplars
With Borges (2003) 238 exemplars
All Men Are Liars (2008) 189 exemplars
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Editor — 152 exemplars
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees (2001) 149 exemplars
Other Fires: Short Fiction by Latin American Women (1985) — Editor & Translator — 122 exemplars
The Gates of Paradise (1993) — Editor — 113 exemplars
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Editor — 73 exemplars
Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge (1985) — Editor — 60 exemplars
Mothers and Daughters: An Anthology (1998) — Editor — 33 exemplars
The Library Book (2017) 33 exemplars
Relatos (1987) — Editor — 33 exemplars
Amante Detalhista, O (2005) 30 exemplars
Soho Square Three (Bk. 3) (1990) 29 exemplars
Magic Land of Toys (2006) 28 exemplars
Fathers & Sons (1998) 25 exemplars
Canadian Mystery Stories (1991) — Editor — 23 exemplars
Contos de Horror do Século XIX (2005) 22 exemplars
Penguin Book Of Summer Stories (2007) 21 exemplars
The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories (1990) — Editor — 19 exemplars
El regreso (2005) 13 exemplars
Borges'in Evinde (2002) 11 exemplars
Breve tratado de la pasión (2008) 8 exemplars
Von Atlantis bis Utopia II (1987) 7 exemplars
Von Atlantis bis Utopia III (1987) 7 exemplars
Kipling: A Brief Biography (2004) 6 exemplars
Von Atlantis bis Utopia I (1987) 6 exemplars
El regreso de Ulises (2014) 6 exemplars
Sehnsucht Utopie (2017) 5 exemplars
Le Livre des Eloges (2007) 5 exemplars
COMO PINOCHO APRENDIO A LEER (2014) 4 exemplars
Sol y sombra : Miquel Barcelo (2016) 4 exemplars
Histoires classiques (2010) 3 exemplars
L' Apocalisse secondo Dürer (2015) 3 exemplars
Borges apaixonado 2 exemplars
Libropesía y otras adicciones (2009) 2 exemplars
Adolescenza (1996) 2 exemplars
Empire of the word 1 exemplars
Ayrintilara Asik Adam (2019) 1 exemplars
The Kipling play 1 exemplars
Les sept dormants 1 exemplars
Personajes imaginarios (2011) 1 exemplars
Bestiario 1 exemplars
Don Quijote y sus fantasmas (2020) 1 exemplars
LENDO IMAGENS 1 exemplars

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El secret de la Santa Cena (2003) — Traductor, algunes edicions1,729 exemplars
Plain Tales from the Hills (1888) — Prefaci, algunes edicions1,341 exemplars
Mist (1907) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,245 exemplars
Bad Trips (1991) — Col·laborador — 233 exemplars
The Solitudes (1613) — Introducció, algunes edicions223 exemplars
The Merciful Women (2000) — Traductor, algunes edicions207 exemplars
Dostoyevsky Reads Hegel in Siberia and Bursts into Tears (2006) — Pròleg, algunes edicions83 exemplars
Travels in the Reich, 1933-1945: Foreign Authors Report from Germany (2004) — Editor, algunes edicions81 exemplars
Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in Our History (2001) — Col·laborador — 50 exemplars
Die unendliche Bibliothek: Erzählungen (Fischer Taschenbibliothek) (2010) — Editor and Afterword, algunes edicions32 exemplars
The Imagined Land (2011) — Introducció, algunes edicions25 exemplars
Slightly Foxed 34: Return to Arcadia (2012) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Las bibliotecas de Dédalo (2006) — Pròleg, algunes edicions14 exemplars
The Analog Sea Review: Number Three (2020) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
Into The Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction (2017) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
L'angoisse du héron : Suivi de L'angoisse du lecteur (2009)algunes edicions3 exemplars
Creating the 20th Century: 100 Artists, Writers and Thinkers (2011) — Introducció — 2 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Manguel, Alberto
Nom oficial
Manguel, Alberto
Data de naixement
1948
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
Argentinië (geboren)
Canada (paspoort ∙ 1985)
País (per posar en el mapa)
Argentina
Lloc de naixement
Buenos Aires, Argentinië
Llocs de residència
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Israel
Tahití
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Poitou-Charentes, France
Educació
Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Professions
editor
translator
writer
publisher's reader
Relacions
Jorge Luís Borges
Organitzacions
Writer's Union of Canada
PEN
National Library of Argentina
Roxburghe Club
Premis i honors
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2004)
Premio Germán Sánchez Ruipérez (2002)
Agent
Guillermo Schavelzon
Jennifer Barclay
Bruce Westwood
Biografia breu
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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Obres
115
També de
18
Membres
14,690
Popularitat
#1,567
Valoració
3.9
Ressenyes
277
ISBN
519
Llengües
27
Preferit
67

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