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).

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Alberto Manguel（布宜诺斯艾利斯，1948 年）是一位阿根廷裔加拿大散文家、小说家和文集家，现居住在法国。十几岁时，他是博尔赫斯的读者，最近担任阿根廷国家图书馆馆长。他的多部著作包括《黑水：奇幻文学之书》（1983）、《异国新闻》（1991）、《阅读史》（1996）和《收拾我的图书馆》（2018）。