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J. M. Coetzee

New digital resources launch online for study of human rights

November 1, 2019 - Harry Ransom Center

Thousands of digitized records reflecting major historical events of the 20th century related to PEN International, a global writers’ organization, are available online beginning this month. [Read more…] about New digital resources launch online for study of human rights

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: 20th Century History, archival research, Arthur Miller, E. M. Forster, H. G. Wells, J. M. Coetzee, Radclyffe Hall, Storm Jameson, Thornton Wilder

Archive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired

September 25, 2017 - Suzanne Krause

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. [Read more…] about Archive of Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient,” acquired

Filed Under: Authors Tagged With: Acquisitions, Canada, Don DeLillo, J. M. Coetzee, James Salter, Jayne Anne Phillips, Kazuo Ishiguro, Michael Ondaatje, novelist, poet, release, Sri Lanka, The English Patient

The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee’s early programming career

June 28, 2017 - Rebecca Roach

Writer J. M. Coetzee’s early poetry is almost undecipherable. That’s because it was written in computer code.

Coetzee’s global reputation rests on his literary output, for which he received a Nobel Prize in 2003. Before he embarked on a career as a scholar and writer, the South African–born writer was a computer programmer in the early years of the industry’s development (1962–1965). I believe that this experience, while short, was vital for the development of Coetzee’s writerly project. While visiting the Ransom Center on a research fellowship, I examined Coetzee’s papers, which offer tantalizing clues about his neglected “other career.” [Read more…] about The computer poetry of J. M. Coetzee’s early programming career

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: Abby Adams, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship Endowment, Atlas 2, Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Born Digital, code, computer, computer poetry, computer programmer, computer programming, computing, digital archive, Fellowships, J. M. Coetzee, Kings College London, Nobel Prize, Rebecca Roach, South Africa, Youth

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