Authors: Alberto Manguel
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to: Vanesa Cañete, Javier Cercas, Valeria Ciompi, Marusha and Tony DÃaz, Silvia Di Segni, Graeme Gibson, Maite Gallego, Felicidad OrquÃn, Enrique López Sánchez, Willie Schavelzon, Gudrun Schöne-Tamisier, Zoe Valdés.
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Born in Buenos Aires,
Alberto Manguel
is the prize-winning author of
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places
(cowritten with Gianni Guadalupi),
A History of Reading
,
The Library at Night
, and
News from a Foreign Country Came,
and the translator and editor of many other works. He lives in the south of France.
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Or perhaps “evanescent”âI'm not sure how to read this word. Vila-Matas had (and still has) terrible handwriting.