FORMENTOR LITERATURE PRIZE 2017
ALFONSO REYES INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017
Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator, editor and critic, born in Buenos Aires in 1948. He has published several novels, and non-fiction, including Fabulous Monsters, Packing My Library, Curiosity, With Borges, A History of Reading, The Library at Night and (together with Gianni Guadalupi) The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.
He has received numerous international awards, among others the Commander of the Order of Arts & Letters from France, the Formentor Prize and the Alfonso Reyes Prize in 2017, and the Gutenberg Prize 2018. He is doctor honoris causa of the universities of Ottawa and York in Canada, and Liège in Belgium and Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, UK. He was the director of the National Library of Argentina. In September of 2020 Alberto Manguel donates his library, composed of about 40 thousand volumes, to the City of Lisbon, and since 2021, he has been directing the Atlântida Space, a study center for the history of reading, in that city.
La Vanguardia – Alfonso Reyes International Prize 2017 (Spanish)
“Manguel leaps across the traditional barriers between literature,
literary history and academia with a virtuosity that leaves the reader
breathless. He is the Montaigne of our time and for this latest work,
if they send a new robot to Mars, they ought to name it: ‘Manguel’.”
John Sutherland
«His work is one of the most lucid explorations of the organic history of the universal library in world literature»
Jury of the Premio Formentor de las Letras 2017
“Manguel is a literary magpie whose beady eye falls on unconsidered trifles.”
Allan Massie
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