Alberto Manguel is an Argentinian-Canadian writer, translator and critic. He has published both fiction and non-fiction, and received numerous international awards, among others the Formentor Prize 2017 and the Gutenberg Prize 2018. Until August 2018, he was the director of the Argentine National Library. He lives in New York.
Alberto Manguel
Writer and translator
Participant In These Roundtable Discussions
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Feb 21st
2015
Feb 21st
2015
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Particle Fever / The Quest
This roundtable will consider the mental and personal qualities that drive scientific and intellectual quests for discovery, beyond curiosity and courage, in the face of the known and the unknown.
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Mar 14th
2015
Mar 14th
2015
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Curiosity
This roundtable will explore curiosity as both a driving force of knowledge and a source of existential and ethical inquiry, examining how lives shaped by curiosity give meaning across disciplines and perspectives.
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Jan 28th
2017
Jan 28th
2017
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The Library as Reality and Metaphor
This roundtable explores the significance of libraries across their many forms—physical, digital, and cognitive—as systems for organizing, preserving, and transmitting knowledge. It considers their epistemic and mnemonic roles in shaping how information is stored, accessed, and interpreted, as well as their broader cultural and philosophical importance in structuring individual and collective understanding.
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Nov 16th
2019
Nov 16th
2019
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Emergence of Empathy: Encountering The Other Through Fiction
This roundtable explores empathy as a psychological and imaginative process through which individuals “feel into” others and learn from both real and fictional experiences. It considers how empathy shapes identity, emotional understanding, and our ability to navigate relationships and internal conflicts.