The writer, essayist and director of the National Library of Argentina, Alberto Manguel, was awarded this Monday in Spain with the Formentor Prize for Letters, one of the most important in the world, that previously only two Argentines obtained: Jorge Luis Borges in 1961, shared with Samuel Beckett, and Ricardo Piglia in 2015.

The Argentine-Canadian writer was awarded in recognition of his work as a whole. The judge, formed by Inger Enkvist, Lila Azam Zanganeh, Daniel fernandez, Francisco Jarauta and Basilio Baltasar, has unanimously decided to grant the award to a work that "constitutes one of the most lucid inquiries in the organic history of the universal library".

The award will be presented in September within the framework of the Literary Conversations of Formentor, which this year celebrates its 10th anniversary..