Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is a Canadian Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and
A History of Reading (1996)
The Library at Night (2007) and
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as
News From a Foreign Country Came (1991). Though almost all of Manguel's books were written in English, two of his novels (
El regreso and
Todos los hombres son mentirosos) were written in Spanish and have not yet been published in English. Manguel has also written film criticism such as
Bride of Frankenstein (1997) and collections of essays such as
Into the Looking Glass Wood (1998).
For over twenty years, Manguel has edited a number of literary anthologies on a variety of themes or genres ranging from erotica and gay stories to fantastic literature and mysteries.
^Eric Beddows illustrated the Zoom series, for which he has twice won Canada's Amelia Frances Howard-Gibbon Illustrator's Award; the Newbery-winning Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, and Shadow Play, both by Paul Fleischman. He lives in Stratford, Ontario, Canada.