2018 Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel, born in Buenos Aires in 1948, grew up in Israel and Argentina and has been a Canadian citizen since 1988. At home in several languages, he worked in Buenos Aires, Paris, Milan, London, Toronto, and elsewhere as a publishing editor, literature lecturer, and translator. Since 2016 he has been the director of the Argentine National Library, succeeding the legendary Jorge L. Borges, the blind librarian of the Argentine Library, who was assisted by the young Alberto Manguel as a reader.
With his book "The History of Reading" Alberto Manguel created a seduction to reading in 1998, which was translated into 36 languages. Just now, on his 70th birthday, a declaration of love for his own 40,000 book library has been published under the title "The Hidden Library. One Elegy and Ten Digressions" (Packing My Library: An Elegy and Ten Digressions, New Haven: Yale University Press), Frankfurt am Main, S. Fischer 2018.