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.