by Alberto Manguel, Gianni Guadalupi · Alianza · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788420644301
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«Breve guía de lugares imaginarios» is the reference work by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi, from Alianza in paperback (704 pages, in Spanish).
Alphabetical compilation of imaginary places created by literature, from classical antiquity to current authors such as Tolkien, Borges or Rowling. Includes around a hundred maps, plans and illustrations and an author index linking each place to its work.
Awarded the Adamastor Prize for Foreign Fantastic Literature (2014). Compendium of the major Alianza edition (1992); El Libro de Bolsillo collection.
For readers interested in fantastic literature, imaginary worlds and reference works on literary geography.
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, speaking English, Spanish, German, and French fluently, and also Italian and Portuguese at a very advanced level. He left Argentina at the age of twenty, in 1968. He has lived in Israel, Argentina, France, United Kingdom, Italy, French Polynesia, Canada, United States and Portugal. Since 2021 he has directed an international center for reading studies in Lisbon, baptized in 2023 as Espaço Atlântida; In the biography of the center's website you can read: "He became a Canadian citizen and continues to identify his nationality as first and foremost Canadian."
