Prose, Poetry, Life

Alberto Manguel

6:00pm

Tuesday, September 26

60 mins

International man of words and bibliopile, Alberto Manguel takes the stage to explore his journey and evolution as a writer and his prolific career to date, including his recent dual-language collection of poems Death By Water.

A celebrated translator, writer, editor and reviewer, Manguel’s life has been linked to literature since he was 16 years old, working in a bookshop where he would later be asked by the blind Jorge Luis Borges to read aloud to him at his home. Discussing his collection, his novellas A Return and The Overdiscriminating Lover, writing in translation and more, this is a must-see for fans of translated literature.

Moderated by Gilbert Reid.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Poetry

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$19.99

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Moderated by Gilbert Reid.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Poetry

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Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator, editor and critic, born in 1948. He has published novels and non-fiction, including With Borges, A History of Reading and (with Gianni Guadalupi) The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. He has received numerous awards, among others the Guggenheim in 2004, Commander of the Order of Arts & Letters from France in 2014, the Gutenberg Prize 2018 and Officer of the Order of Canada 2018. He is doctor honoris causa of the universities of Ottawa and York, Liège, Cambridge Anglo Ruskin and Poitiers. Until August of 2018 he was the director of the National Library of Argentina. He is now the director of the Centro de Estudos da História da Leitura.