WRITER

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 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). Though almost all of Manguel's books were written in English, two of his novels (El regreso and Todos los hombres son mentirosos) were written in Spanish, and El regreso has not yet been published in English. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Manguel has received more than 157,774 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.90

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

A history of reading
History, Reading, Books and reading
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the 6000-year-old conversation between words and that magician without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel lingers over reading as seduction, as rebellion, as obsession, and goes on to trace the never-before-told story of the reader's progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
1996
Stevenson Under the Palm Trees
Fiction, Missionaries, Crimes against
2002
Reading Pictures
Art appreciation, Visual perception, Psychological aspects of Narrative art
2000
The dictionary of imaginary places
Fantasy literature, Geographical myths, History and criticism
1980
News from a foreign country came
1991
A reading diary
Books and reading, Literature and society, Diaries
2004

Page views of Alberto Manguels by language

Over the past year Alberto Manguel has had the most page views in the with 16,477 views, followed by Spanish (11,616), and French (7,279). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (52.89%), Latin (51.90%), and Catalan (48.28%)

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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