July 9, 2018, Filed Under: Books + ManuscriptsMichael Ondaatje’s The English Patient wins the Golden Man Booker Prize Congratulations to Michael Ondaatje, whose 1992 novel The English Patient was awarded the Golden Man Booker Prize on Sunday, July 8. Ondaatje’s archive was recently acquired by the Harry Ransom Center and contains extensive materials relating to the award-winning novel.
July 3, 2018, Filed Under: ConservationGloves: to wear or not to wear? People often associate glove-wearing with the handling of old or rare book and paper materials.
June 27, 2018, Filed Under: Research + TeachingFellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators by Enora Lessinger I visited the Kazuo Ishiguro archive at the Harry Ransom Center in June 2017, a few months before Ishiguro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This British writer of Japanese descent is famous for the suggestive quality of his writing, and in particular for his self-deceived,… read more
