Ivan Dobnik - Vilenica

Alberto Manguel se je rodil leta 1948
v Buenos Airesu v Argentini. Odraščal
je v Tel Avivu, kjer je njegov oče služboval
kot prvi argentinski veleposlanik
v Izraelu. Pisatelj, prevajalec in urednik
se po narodnosti opredeljuje za
Kanadčana, odkar je leta 2000 tudi
postal kanadski državljan. Danes redno
piše kolumno za Geist, najbolj razširjeno
kanadsko literarno revijo. Je avtor številnih
strokovnih del, kot so The Dictionary
of Imaginary Places (Slovar domišljijskih
krajev, 1980) v soavtor stvu z Giannijem
Guadalupijem, History of Reading (Zgodovina
branja, 1996) in The Library at
Night (Knjižnica ponoči, 2007), slednji
sta izšli pri Cankarjevi založbi v
slovenskem prevodu Nade Grošelj ter
Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography
(Homerjevi Iliada in Odiseja: Biografija,
2008). Leta 1992 je prejel nagrado
»McKitterick« Združenega kraljestva za
najboljši romaneskni prvenec News from
a Foreign Country Came (Prispele so novice
iz tuje dežele, 1991). Med drugim
je prejel tudi Guggenheimovo štipendijo
(2004), bil imenovan za častnika
reda umetnosti in leposlovja francoske
republike (2004), podeljen pa mu je bil
tudi častni doktorat Univerze v Liègeu
(2007). Leta 2009 mu je bil podeljen še
častni doktorat Univerze Anglia Ruskin
v Cambridgeu.
Alberto Manguel was born in 1948 in
Buenos Aires, Argentina . He grew up in
Tel-Aviv, where his father served as the
first Argentinean ambassador to Israel .
The writer, translator, and editor identifies
his nationality as Canadian since becoming
a Canadian citizen in 2000 . Today
he writes a regular column for Canada’s
most widely read literary magazine
Geist. He is the author of numerous nonfiction
books, such as The Dictio nary of
Imaginary Places (1980), co-written
with Gianni Guadalupi; History of
Reading (1996), and Library at Night
(2007), which were also translated into
Slovene by Nada Grošelj and published
by the Cankarjeva založba Publishing
House in 2007; and Homer’s Iliad
and Odyssey: A Biography (2008) . In
1992, he won the McKitterick Prize of
the United Kingdom for his debut novel
News from a Foreign Country Came
(1991) . Among others, he also received
the Guggenheim Fellowship (2004),
was appointed an officer of the French
Order of Arts and Letters (2004), and
was presented with an honorary doctorate
from the University of Liège (2007) .
In 2009, he was also presented with
an honorary doctorate from the Anglia
Ruskin University in Cambridge .