The writer and bibliophile Alberto Manguel, who was director of the National Library of Argentina and now lives in Portugal, will be next Monday, February 19th, at 18pm, at the Municipal Library of Lagoa, under the heading “Celebrating Freedom ”.
The literary lecture will be presented by Maria Luísa Francisco.
Alberto Manguel is an Argentine writer, born in Buenos Aires in 1948, with Canadian citizenship.
He published fiction and non-fiction, including “Guia de Um Perplexo em Portugal”, “Curiosità”, “Com Borges”, “Uma História da Leição”, “A Biblioteca de Noite” and, together with Gianni Guadalupi, “O Diccionario dos imaginary places.”
He received the Guggenheim Prize, Commander of the Order of Arts & Letters, France, the Formentor Prize, the Alfonso Reyes Prize, the Gutenberg Prize, the Nonino Prize, and the Official Prize of the Order of Canada.
He holds an honorary doctorate from the universities of Ottawa and York in Canada, Liège in Belgium, Poitiers in France and Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, United Kingdom. Until August 2018 he was the director of the National Library of Argentina.
He is currently the director of Espaço Atlântida, the Center for the Study of the History of Reading in Lisbon.
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