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  <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and 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). 

Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Buenos Aires</hometown>      
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A History of Reading]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.03</average_rating>
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  <published>1996</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Library at Night]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.04</average_rating>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Gianni Guadalupi]]></name>
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  <published>1980</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.57</average_rating>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Reading Diary: A Passionate Reader's Reflections on a Year of Books]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <published>2004</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[With Borges]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The City of Words]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.87</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>30</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.61</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>23</ratings_count>
  <published>1990</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Homer's Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography (Books That Changed The World)]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.91</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>22</ratings_count>
  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Other Fires]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Alberto Manguel]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>12</ratings_count>
  <published>1985</published>  
  
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