Alberto Manguel

Born in Buenos Aires in 1948, Alberto Manguel read aloud to the blind Jorge Luis Borges as a teenager before leaving Argentina in 1968. He lived for twenty years in Toronto, became a Canadian citizen, and has written and edited dozens of books, including A History of Reading, The Library at Night and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places. He later directed the National Library of Argentina and now leads a centre for the study of reading in Lisbon. For Bayeux Arts he wrote Kipling: A Brief Biography and edited a collection of G. K. Chesterton's essays.