Alberto Manguel wins the Formentor de las Letras Prize 2017, worth 50,000 euros

The author, essayist and director of the National Library of Argentina, was awarded in Spain with one of the most important prizes in the world, which only two Argentinians have won in the past: Jorge Luis Borges in 1961, joint with Samuel Beckett, and Ricardo Piglia in 2015.

The Argentine-Canadian writer was awarded the prize for his collected works. The jury, made up by Inger Enkyist, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Daniel Fernández, Francisco Jarauta and Basilio Baltasar, decided unanimously to honour a body of work that ‘constitutes one of the most lucid investigations into the organic history of the universal library’.

The prize will be given to him in September during the “Conversaciones Literarias de Formentor” (Literary Conversations of Formentor) which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary.”

Other authors that have received the prize include Carlos Fuentes, Juan Goytisolo, Javier Marías, Enrique Vila-Matas or Ricardo Piglia.

The Spanish Bookstage 

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