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Nobel Prize in Literature

Thoughts during a pandemic on Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and what ‘it’ is

October 22, 2020 - Harry Ransom Center

by JAMES ARNETT

“Why was it so hard to see while it was happening that that was what was happening?”
—URSULA K. LeGUIN, In and Out [1]

“What’s ‘it’–what do you mean by ‘it’?”
“O, anything–I mean–you know what I mean.”
—VIRGINIA WOOLF, Kew Gardens typescript

The walls have closed in in my Tennessee home. I sometimes stand up blinking from my screen and walk from room to room, unsure of what I’m looking for or doing. My corgi, Phineas Finn, is no help, certain that if I am at home I am at his service. I stand in my front window often, looking at the unchanging suburban street. I retreat to the refuge of books. [Read more…] about Thoughts during a pandemic on Doris Lessing, Virginia Woolf, and what ‘it’ is

Filed Under: Authors, Featured1 Tagged With: archive, Doris Lessing, literature, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature

ABOUT JAMES ARNETT
James Arnett, PhD, is the UC Foundation Associate Professor of English at the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga and a former Harry Ransom Center Fellow.

Celebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing

October 22, 2019 - Harry Ransom Center

Doris Lessing

Nobel Prize–winning author Doris Lessing was born one hundred years ago, on October 22, 1919. [Read more…] about Celebrating 100 years of Doris Lessing

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Exhibitions + Events Tagged With: Doris Lessing, literature, Nobel Prize in Literature, science fiction

Public has access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro

October 5, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

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. [Read more…] about Public has access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro

Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: British authors, Kazuo Ishiguro, Nobel Prize, Nobel Prize in Literature, Remains of the Day

Students, researchers and public have access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro

October 5, 2017 - Jennifer Tisdale

Kazuo Ishiguro's chapter 1 plan for "When We Were Orphans."

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. [Read more…] about Students, researchers and public have access to archive of Nobel Laureate Kazuo Ishiguro

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LISTEN: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech

October 21, 2015 - Suzanne Krause

Gabriel García Márquez's text of Nobel Prize in Literature speech (1982).

Born in Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez began his career as a journalist in the 1940s, reporting from Bogotá and Cartagena and later serving as a foreign correspondent in Europe and Cuba. In 1961, he moved to Mexico City. Alongside his prolific journalism career,

[Read more…] about LISTEN: Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech

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ESCUCHE: A Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel

October 21, 2015 - Suzanne Krause

A bronze bust of Gabriel García Márquez alongside the busts of other writers in the entry alcove at the Ransom Center. Photo by Pete Smith.

Originario de Colombia, Gabriel García Márquez inició su carrera como periodista en la década de 1940, reportando desde Bogotá y Cartagena, y posteriormente como corresponsal internacional en Europa y Cuba. En 1961, se trasladó a la Ciudad de México. Junto con su prolífica carrera [Read more…] about ESCUCHE: A Gabriel García Márquez en su discurso de aceptación del Premio Nobel

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