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Alberto Manguel

1948 - Today

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Alberto Manguel (born March 13, 1948, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel (Tel Aviv, 1948-1955), Argentina (Buenos Aires, 1955-1968), France (Paris, 1968-1971, and Poitou-Charentes, 2000-2015), United Kingdom (London, 1972), Italy (Milan, 1974-1979), French Polynesia (Tahiti, 1973-1974), Canada (Toronto, 1980-2000), United States (New York; 2015-2020) and Portugal (Lisbon, since 2021). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alberto Manguel is the 2,143rd most popular writer (down from 1,807th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 110th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alberto Manguel ranks 2,143 out of 7,302. Before him are Jón Arason, Joan Didion, Lu Ji, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Elizabeth von Arnim, and John Kennedy Toole. After him are Paul Hazard, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Caecilius Statius, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Mariano José de Larra, and Asma bint Marwan.

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Among people born in 1948, Alberto Manguel ranks 190. Before him are Ruud Geels, Shaul Mofaz, Friedrich Koncilia, Dušan Bajević, Jimmy Lai, and László Lovász. After him are Delio Onnis, John Dew, Donna Karan, Jaya Bachchan, Vladimír Remek, and Lars Lagerbäck.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alberto Manguel ranks 137 out of 1,154. Before him are Mario Bunge (1919), Arturo Umberto Illia (1900), Gato Barbieri (1932), Juan Carlos Aramburu (1912), Facundo Cabral (1937), and Mauricio Pochettino (1972). After him are Amadeo Carrizo (1926), Paulo Dybala (1993), Héctor José Cámpora (1909), Juan Carlos Onganía (1914), Pedro Eugenio Aramburu (1903), and Eduardo Camaño (1946).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Alberto Manguel ranks 8. Before him are Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Manuel Puig (1932), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Victoria Ocampo (1890), and Alejandra Pizarnik (1936). After him are Joseph Kessel (1898), María Kodama (1937), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), Juan Gelman (1930), and Jorge Bucay (1949).

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