Alberto Manguel
director
Argentine-Canadian writer and essayist, born in Buenos Aires in 1948. An eclectic thinker, he has investigated themes related to the history of reading with acuity and depth of analysis, publishing literary and metanarrative biographies and polycentric essays.
In 2017 he was awarded the Formentor and Alfonso Reyes Prizes, and the Gutenberg Prize in 2018. He is Commander of the French Order of Arts & Letters, Officer of the Order of Canada, and member of the Lincei Academy.
From 2016 to 2018 he was director of the National Library of Argentina. (see more: PDF)
Team
Beatriz Magro
Conceição Santos
Jillian Tomm
Joana Amaral
Patrícia Pimenta
Honorary Board
Margaret Atwood
Raja Ben Slama
Lina Bolzoni
Chico Buarque de Hollanda
José Emilio Burucúa
Jean Canavaggio
Roger Chartier
Pedro Corrêa do Lago
Robert Darnton
Laurence Engel
Stephan Füssel
Consuelo Gaitán
Carla Hayden
Shamil Jeppie
Arthur Kiron
Tom Mole
Carlo Ossola
Richard Ovenden
Salman Rushdie
Bill Sherman
Samuel Titan
Olga Tokarczuk
José Tolentino de Mendonça
Socorro Venegas
Enrique Vila-Matas
Francisco Rico
Maryanne Wolf