This week, Dibyajyoti Sarma recommends the eclectic writings of Alberto Manguel, the Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former Director of the National Library of Argentina.
He is the author of numerous non-fiction books
such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in
1980), 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 El regreso has not yet been published in English.
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