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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Manguel has received more than 172,279 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Alberto Manguel is the 1,808th most popular writer (up from 1,832nd in 2019), the 110th most popular biography from Argentina (down from 101st in 2019) and the 7th most popular Argentinean Writer.

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  • 170k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alberto Manguel ranks 1,808 out of 7,302. Before him are Albert Gleizes, Sanai, Bartolomeo Platina, Alejandra Pizarnik, Philemon, and Mir Taqi Mir. After him are Petros Markaris, Alfredo M. Bonanno, Theophylact of Ohrid, Martin of Opava, Josep Pla, and Agnes Smedley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Alberto Manguel ranks 142. Before him are Vincent Schiavelli, Charles Simonyi, Ram Baran Yadav, Glenn Frey, Dan Halutz, and George Abela. After him are Margot Kidder, Kenny Loggins, Yuriy Yekhanurov, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada, John de Lancie, and James Ellroy.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Alberto Manguel ranks 110 out of 1,154. Before him are Julio Argentino Roca (1843), Javier Mascherano (1984), Manuel Puig (1932), José Manuel Moreno (1916), Alejandra Pizarnik (1936), and Alejandro Sabella (1954). After him are Guillermo Mordillo (1932), Mario Bunge (1919), José Pékerman (1949), Sergio Agüero (1988), Luis Carniglia (1917), and Libertad Lamarque (1908).

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Among WRITERS In Argentina

Among writers born in Argentina, Alberto Manguel ranks 7. Before him are Jorge Luis Borges (1899), Ernesto Sabato (1911), Adolfo Bioy Casares (1914), Silvina Ocampo (1903), Manuel Puig (1932), and Alejandra Pizarnik (1936). After him are Victoria Ocampo (1890), Joseph Kessel (1898), Esther Vilar (1935), María Elena Walsh (1930), María Kodama (1937), and Jorge Bucay (1949).

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