On Reading, Writing and Fiddling with Words: An Informal Talk with Alberto Manguel
Join 香蕉视频 Library & Archives and the Friends of the Library for this special talk as we celebrate the publication of .
Mr. Manguel will be in conversation with Dr. Jillian Tomm, Assistant Head, Rare & Special Collections, 香蕉视频 Library and Archives.
About Alberto Manguel: Alberto Manguel was born in Buenos Aires in 1948, and counts as a pivotal experience reading to the blind Jorge Luis Borges聽when Manguel was sixteen and working at the Pygmalion bookshop. Manguel is now a Canadian citizen and has contributed regularly to Canadian聽newspapers and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, as well as to the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times and the Village Voice, and the聽Svenska Dagbladet. In 1992, Manguel鈥檚 novel, News from a Foreign Country Came, won the McKitterick Prize. Manguel was awarded a Guggenheim聽Fellowship and honorary doctorates from the universities of Li猫ge, in Belgium and Anglia Ruskin in Cambridge, UK. He is a Commandeur de l鈥橭rdre des聽Arts et des Lettres (France). Manguel spent the fall 2014 term at the McGill Library as and gave the keynote address at the聽鈥淢eetings with Books: Raymond Klibansky, Special Collections and the Library in the 21st Century鈥� full day symposium held at McGill in March of 2013.
RSVP required. Email聽rsvp.libraries [at] mcgill.ca or call 514-398-5711.
Free admission.
