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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

Scrapbooking Gabo

May 15, 2017 - Jullianne Ballou

An interview with Celia Shaheen, Digitization Technician on the Gabriel García Márquez online archive

[Read more…] about Scrapbooking Gabo

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: CLIR Garcia Marquez, Council on Library and Information Resources, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Gabriel Garcia Marquez archive, Nobel Prize, Sharing Gabo with the World, Undergraduate

Writers without borders: The power of PEN

March 27, 2017 - Harry Ransom Center

PEN. Appeal to All Governments, printed text in English, French, and German, 1931.

The story of twentieth-century political activism, persecution, and creative expression cannot be fully understood without exploring the rich materials in the PEN records at the Harry Ransom Center. [Read more…] about Writers without borders: The power of PEN

Filed Under: Books + Manuscripts, Research + Teaching Tagged With: National Endowment for the Humanities, Nobel Prize, PEN archive, PEN International

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