![]() ![]() He travelled the world and lived in turn in France, Great Britain, Italy, Tahiti and Canada, becoming a citizen of the latter. In 1968, he left Argentina, not long before the repressions of the military dictatorship. This encounter was to have a determining influence. At sixteen, he met Jorge Luis Borges who, having gone blind, hired him as a reader. Back in Argentina at the age of six, he learned Spanish, his “mother tongue”. He was raised by a Czech nanny who taught him English and German. “True understanding of the world can only be conveyed by words.” Since his birth, Manguel has been immersed in a world of cosmopolitan words: born in Buenos Aires in 1948, he spent his childhood in Israel, where his father was the ambassador. A translator, editor, literary critic, essayist and novelist, he praises them in nearly all of his writing: books allow us to live, understand the world and find happiness. For Alberto Manguel, books are “another kind of lover”. ![]()
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