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Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

June 27, 2018 - Harry Ransom Center

Photo of Kazuo Ishiguro in London, 2009, at home, by Isabelle Boccon-Gibod

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, unreliable narrators. [Read more…] about Fellows Find: Searching for Kazuo Ishiguro’s unreliable narrators

Filed Under: Research + Teaching Tagged With: Fellows Find, Fellowships, Kazuo Ishiguro, literature, Manuscripts

“My mind was blown, and so it began.” New curator of early books and manuscripts is former network and systems engineer

May 23, 2017 - Marissa Kessenich

Aaron T. Pratt has joined the Ransom Center as our new Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts.

[Read more…] about “My mind was blown, and so it began.” New curator of early books and manuscripts is former network and systems engineer

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Meet the Staff Tagged With: Aaron T. Pratt, archive, Books, Curator, early books, Manuscripts, Ohio State, Pforzheimer, Pforzheimer curator, Pforzheimer Library, Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, staff, Yale

Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

February 27, 2017 - Ryan Blake

The author and his wife selecting the artwork for the cover of Crónica de una muerte anunciada; photographer and date unknown.

In August 2016, I joined the Ransom Center as a graduate student assistant from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Information to digitize the Gabriel García Márquez papers. [Read more…] about Gabriel García Márquez’s life in 100 pictures

Filed Under: Authors, Cataloging, Digital Collections, Research + Teaching Tagged With: archive, author, Bill Clinton, Books, Carlos Slim, CLIR, CLIR Garcia Marquez, Colombia, Council on Library and Information Resources, digital archive, digitization, family photographs, Fidel Castro, Gabo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel García Márquez: A Life, GRA, grant, literature, Manuscripts, photo album, photographs, Ryan Blake, scrapbooks, Shakira, Sharing Gabo with the World

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