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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 21, 2015, Filed Under: Authors

Ransom Center to acquire archive of Kazuo Ishiguro

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

The Ransom Center is acquiring the archive of novelist Kazuo Ishiguro. Translated into more than 40 languages, Ishiguro’s fiction has received numerous awards, from the Booker Prize for Fiction for “The Remains of the Day” (1989) to the Whitbread Book of the Year award for “An Artist of the Floating… read more 

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