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.