Alberto Manguel

Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, and educated there. He has an international reputation as a polyglot anthropologist, translator and editor of great gifts ("both enthusiastic and meticulous... with a brilliant strong natural taste", Guardian). His works in English include Black Water: the Flamingo Anthology of Fantastic Literature and (with Craig Stephenson) In Another Part of the Forest: the Flamingo Anthology of Gay Literature. His highly acclaimed novel, News from a Foreign Country Came, won the McKitterick Prize in 1992.