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Kazuo Ishiguro

September 25, 2017, Filed Under: Authors

Archive 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.

June 15, 2016, Filed Under: Authors

Taking note of the Kazuo Ishiguro archive

Ishiguro as singer-songwriter in his early twenties, Broadoak, Kent, 1977. Ishiguro still plays guitar-and a number of other instruments-and composed lyrics for jazz singer Stacey Kent in 2007.

As Kazuo Ishiguro was preparing his archive for transfer to the Harry Ransom Center, he spent weeks sifting through the papers, making notes about the manuscripts and other documents he found in it.

August 24, 2015, Filed Under: Authors

Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Notes on some GREAT WRITERS”

Kazuo Ishiguro's explanatory comments about books read and films seen.

Within Kazuo Ishiguro’s archive are some of his notes on great writers as well as thoughts about films. Some are handwritten while others are typed. Ishiguro has been, in his own words, “putting random, impromptu thoughts of books read (sometimes films seen with particular emphasis on useful lessons, etc, for… read more 

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