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Alberto Manguel
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Argentine-Canadian writer (born 1948)

Also known as: Alberto Adrián Manguel, Альберто Мангель, ألبرتو مانغويل, 알베르토 망구엘, アルベルト・マングェル, 阿爾維托·曼古埃爾

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Known works

  • The City of Words
  • The Library at Night
  • A history of reading
  • Into the looking-glass wood
  • Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey