October 5, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + TeachingPublic has access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro The Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin holds the archive of novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, the recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature for 2017.
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingComing out of the archives Coming Out of the Archives is a selection of materials curated by students in my spring 2017 Queer Archives class. The materials can be seen in the Ransom Center’s Stories to Tell exhibition that features rotating highlights from the collections. [Editor’s note: the items are no longer on view, as… read more
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsA nomad’s writing finds a home Q&A with Michael Ondaatje Michael Ondaatje began his career as a poet but is best known as the author of the 1992 Booker Prize-winning novel The English Patient, which was made into a critically-acclaimed motion picture. He was born in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) in 1943; he moved to Canada… read more
September 25, 2017, Filed Under: AuthorsArchive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired The archive of award-winning author Michael Ondaatje has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Center. Ondaatje, author of the Booker Prize-winning novel “The English Patient,” is widely regarded as one of the finest English-language novelists writing today.
July 17, 2017, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, Research + TeachingHelp us meet this year’s goal for a National Endowment for the Humanities challenge grant In 2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education noted, “No campus library in the U.S. mounts exhibitions to rival those of the University of Texas at Austin’s special-collection library, the Harry Ransom Center.”
July 5, 2017, Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + EventsInstructions for reading aloud in the Gutenberg Bible As many readers of this blog will know, Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust’s Biblia latina (Mainz, 1454–1455) represents the first substantial book printed from moveable type on a printing press. Without question, it is a milestone in information technology. And yet, it is important to remember that
