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Alberto Manguel
Alberto Manguel (Buenos Aires, 1948), an Argentine-Canadian essayist, novelist, and anthologist, now lives in France. In his late teens he was a reader for Borges, and more recently was director of Argentina’s National Library. His many books include Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983), News from a Foreign Country Came (1991), A History of Reading (1996), and Packing My Library (2018).