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Alberto Manguel


Argentina (b.1948)

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, and educated there. He has an international reputation as a polyglot anthopologist, translator and editor of great gifts ('both enthusiastic and meticulous... with a brilliant strong natural taste', 'Guardian'). His works in English include 'Black Water: the Flamingo Anthology of Fantastic Literature' and (with Craig Stephenson) 'In Another Part of the Forest: the Flamingo Anthology of Gay Literature'. His highly acclaimed novel, 'News from a Foreign Country Came', won the McKitterick Prize in 1992.
 

Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
 
Novels
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Collections
   In Another Part of the Forest (1968) (with Craig Stephenson)
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Anthologies edited
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Anthology series
Black Water
   1. Black Water (1983)
   2. Black Water 2 (1990)
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Non fiction show
 
Alberto Manguel recommends
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The Road to Wanting (2010)
Wendy Law-Yone
"A hauntingly beautiful book."
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Mirrors (2009)
Eduardo Galeano
"Heroes rub shoulders with villains and apes in Eduardo Galeano's magical history of mankind."
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What Casanova Told Me (2004)
Susan Swan
"Susan Swan has given us a great romantic novel. What Casanova Told Me is a graceful and literate meditation on the uneasy relationship between the New World and the Old, on the gossip of history, and on the nature of love."

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