Alberto Manguel
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Alberto Manguel is an Argentine-Canadian anthologist, translator, essayist, novelist, editor, and a former director of the National Library of Argentina. He is a cosmopolitan and polyglot scholar, spe
Manguel in 2025
Manguel at Fronteiras do Pensamento (Frontiers of Thought) in 2014
Reading
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Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of the symbols of a written language, by means of sight or touch. The ability to read is called literacy.
Alberto Manguel
…He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980), A History of Reading (1996), The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008); and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991…
A reading muse
Volunteer reads to a girl at the Casa Hogar de las Niñas in Mexico City.
Senior reading a newspaper in Nepal
Researchers have concluded that approximately 95% of students can be taught to read by the end of the first or second year of school, yet in many countries 20% or more do not meet that expectation.