Career (Academic and Literary)
- 2022: Member of the Conseil de langues, Ministère de l’éducation, France
- 2021-2022: Chair of “Europe: languages and literatures” at the Collège de France
- 2020-ongoing: Director of the Centro de Estudos da História da Leitura, Lisbon
- 2020: Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Bard College, NY
- 2019: Distinguished Scholar in Residence, McGill University
- 2016-2018: Director of the National Library of Argentina, Buenos Aires
- 2016-2018: Head of Literature, National Arts Council of Argentina, Buenos Aires
- 2015-2016: Visiting Professor, Princeton University, NJ
- 2015-2016: Visiting Professor, Columbia University, New York
- 2015-2016, 2018-2019: Lecturer on Dante, Borges, Kipling, 92Y, New York
- 2014: Visiting Professor, McGill University, Montreal
- 2013: Member of the Man Booker International Prize e-Council (ongoing)
- 2013: Inaugural Roberston Davies Lecturer, Kingston Literary Festival, Canada
- 2013: Klibansky Lecturer, McGill University, Montreal
- 2013: President du Comité Scientifique et Culturel de la Bibliothèque Humaniste de Sélestat, France
- 2012-2014: Director of the Festival “L’altra metà della pagina”, Genoa, Italy
- 2011: Rosenbach Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania
- 2010-2016: Director of the Festival “Atlantide”, Nantes, France
- 2009-2011: Lecturer on Dante, Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, Italy
- 2007: Massey Lecturer, Canada
- 2007: Cátedra Cortázar, Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico
- 2003: S. Fischer Professor, Freie Universität, Berlin
- 2003: Pratt Lecturer, Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada
- 1999: Guest Lecturer, “Exile & Migration” Seminar, Boston University
- 1998-1999: Markin-Flanagan Distinguished Visiting Writer at the Univ. of Calgary
- 1997: Times Literary Supplement Lecturer, UK
- 1997: Canadian Literature Seminar (Head), University of Urbino, Italy
- 1995: Canadian Literature Seminar (Head), University of Venice, Italy
- 1992-1996: Maclean Hunter Arts Journalism Program (Head), The Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Alberta
- 1992-1994: Artistic Advisor, Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis
- 1991-1993: Contributing Editor, Grand Street, New York
- 1988-1996: Contributing Editor, Saturday Night, Toronto
- 1988: “History of Reading” Seminar (Head), Simon Fraser University, BC
- 1987-1988: Staff Literary Critic, The Journal, CBC TV, Toronto
- 1987: Contemporary Literature Seminar (Head), Earl Haig High School, North York
- 1986-1989: Contemporary Reading Group (Head), McGill Club, Toronto
- 1985-1988: Staff Drama Critic, “State of the Arts”, CBC Radio, Toronto
- 1984-1986: Staff Drama Critic, “CBLT Morning”, CBC TV, Toronto
- 1983-1986: Fantastic Literature Seminar (Head), Vanier College, York University
- 1983-1986: Guest Literary Critic, “Morningside”, CBC Radio, Toronto
- 1980-1982: Editor, Les Éditions du Pacifique, Tahiti
- 1978-1980: Editor, Ram Publishing Company, England
- 1975-1976: Assistant Editor, Les Éditions du Pacifique, Tahiti-Paris
- 1973-1974: Foreign Literature Editor, Franco Maria Ricci Editore, Milan, Italy
- 1972-1973: Journalist, “La Nación”, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1971: Reader, Calder & Boyars, London, England
- 1968-1970: Reader, Gallimard, Les Lettres Nouvelles, Éditions de Denoël, Paris, France
- 1967-1968: Assistant Editor, Editorial Galerna, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 1966-1967: Bookseller, Pygmalion Anglo-German Bookstore, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Career (Literary Juries)
- Juror of Mont Blanc Europa Prize, Italy, 2022
- Juror of the Strega Prize, Italy, 2021
- Juror of the Formentor Prize, Spain, 2020
- President of the García Márquez Prize, Colombia, 2015-2020
- Juror in the Premio FIL de Literaturas en Lenguas Romance, Mexico, 2015
- Member of PEN International New Voices jury, 2014
- Member of the Man Booker International Prize e-Council, 2013
- Juror Premio Von Rezzori-City of Florence, 2008-ongoing
- Juror Premio Clarín, Buenos Aires, 2007-2009
- President Prix Cevennes Roman Européen, 2007-2010
- Juror Maison des écrivains et traducteurs, St.-Nazaire, 2007
- Juror Premio Tusquets, Mexico-Spain, 2005-6
- Juror International Man Booker Prize, 2004-5
- Juror, Berlin International Festival, 2003
- Juror, Civitella Ranieri Centre, Italy, 1995-97
Awards & Honours
- 2022: Feria de Guadalajara, Premio al Bibliófilo “José Luis Martínez” (Mexico)
- 2022: Medalla Carlos Fuentes (Mexico)
- 2021: Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Poitiers (France)
- 2018: Officer of the Order of Canada
- 2018: Gutenberg Prize (Germany)
- 2017: Premio Formentor (Spain)
- 2017: Premio Alfonso Reyes (Mexico)
- 2015: Doctor Honoris Causa, York University, Canada
- 2015: Doctor Honoris Causa, University of Ottawa, Canada
- 2014: Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
- 2009: Doctor Honoris Causa, Anglia Ruskin University (Cambridge, UK)
- 2008: Milovan Vidacovic Prize (Serbia)
- 2007: Doctor Honoris Causa, Université de Liège (Belgium)
- 2007: Premio Grinzane Cavour, Essay (Italy)
- 2004-2005: Fellow of the S. Fischer Stiftung (Germany)
- 2004: Prix Roger Caillois (France)
- 2004: Fellow of the Simon Guggenheim Foundation (USA)
- 2004: Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
- 2004: Prix Poitou-Charentes for Chez Borges (France)
- 2002: Premio Germán Sánchez Ruipérez for best literary criticism (Spain)
- 2000: Prix France Culture, for Dans la forêt du miroir (France)
- 1998: Prix Médicis Essai, for Une Histoire de la lecture (France)
- 1998: Logos Prize, Paris, Special Mention for Une Histoire de la lecture (France)
- 1996: Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France)
- 1992: Harbourfront Award for Contribution to the Arts (Canada)
- 1992: Canadian Writers’ Association Award (Fiction) (Canada)
- 1992: McKitterick First Novel Award (UK)
- 1986: Lewis Gallantière Translation Prize (honourable mention), American Translators Association, for Nouvelles orientales by Marguerite Yourcenar (USA)
- 1981: German Critics Award (Manheim) for Von Atlantis bis Utopia, German translation of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (Germany)
- 1971: Literary Award “La Nación” for short stories (Argentina)
Memberships
- Honorary Foreign Corresponding member of the Grolier Club (2023)
- Member of the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome (2021)
- Member of the Roxburghe Club (2021)
- Member of PEN America (since 2019)
- Member of PEN Canada (since 1986)
- Member of the Canadian Writers’ Union (since 1984)
- Member of the Canadian Association of Literary Translators (since 1984)
- Permanent Patron of PEN UK Free the Word (since 2010)
- Permanent Juror of the Chambre Nationale des Experts Spécialisés en Objets d’Art et de Collection, Paris, France (since 2010)
- Member of the International Association of Bibliophiles (since 2019)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, UK (since 2010)
- Member of the Argentinian Academy of Letters (since 2017)
- Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Letters of Spain (since 2019)
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