Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian writer, translator, and critic. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and received numerous international awards, among them the Formentor Prize in 2017 and the Gutenberg Prize in 2018. As an adolescent, in Buenos Aires, from 1965-1969, he read aloud to the blind Jorge Luis Borges. Until August 2018, he was the director of the Argentine National Library. He has lived in Paris, London, Milan, Tahiti, Toronto, New York, and now Lisbon. He occupied the "Europe: Languages and Literatures" chair at the Collège de France from 2021-2022. He is currently the director of Espaço Atlântida: Centro de Estudos da História da Leitura in Lisbon.