The Book as World, the World as Book
Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an essayist, novelist 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), 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). In Spanish he has written the novels El regreso and Todos los hombres son mentirosos. 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. Since 2016 he is director of the National Library of the Argentine Republic, a position held by Jorge Luis Borges between 1955 and 1973, and whom Manguel met as a boy and read books regularly in his apartment, as Borges was almost blind.
Bill Sherman is the director of Warburg Institute, considered the premier institute in the world for the study of cultural history and the role of images in culture.
Preceding this debate, from 2 to 5:30 pm, workshop with Matthew Coneys, Marta Mansila Martín, Alexandra Nowosiad, José Guevara, Bill Sherman and Roberto Casazza. More information on the following link:
