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“... I first met​ Abdelfattah Kilito in Paris, at the Centre Pompidou, when we were both invited by Alberto Manguel, another dedicated reader, to speak about the 1001 Nights. We found that we agreed about the book and about which were the most marvellous stories in it. We looked at each other in delight – there’s nothing like recognising ...”

“... Orientales of 1938 has just been published in America as Oriental Tales in a new translation by Alberto Manguel, with some revisions and some supplementary material. The collection will be published in this country in September,* to coincide with an Omnibus profile, on BBC Television, of Yourcenar and her work. Of these ten stories some are based on ...”

“... Awriter​ ‘with whom I feel no affinity’: that’s how Annie Ernaux, the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, described Marguerite Yourcenar, the first woman to be elected to the Académie Française. When the 77-year-old Yourcenar entered the Académie on 22 January 1981, wearing a black velvet double-layer cape designed by Yves Saint Laurent, she looked severe, as if she had spent her life as a nun in service to literature ...”

“... to read to him. Buenos Aires is now full of them. The best account of that experience is by Alberto Manguel in A History of Reading (1996) and With Borges (2004): In that sitting-room, under a Piranesi engraving of circular Roman ruins, I read Kipling, Stevenson, Henry James, several entries of the Brockhaus German encyclopedia, verses of ...”