May 8, 2014, Filed Under: AuthorsAuthor Jim Crace awarded literary prize This year, novelist Jim Crace, whose archive resides in the Ransom Center, has received an award of $150,000 for his fiction writing. Presented by Yale University, the Windham Campbell Prize is awarded to writers of fiction, nonfiction, and drama to financially support their literary endeavors.
September 11, 2013, Filed Under: Authors, Books + ManuscriptsJim Crace shortlisted for Booker Prize Author Jim Crace, whose archive resides at the Ransom Center, has been shortlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel Harvest (Nan A. Talese/Picador). Crace was previously shortlisted for the Booker Prize for his 1997 novel Quarantine. The winner of the Booker will be announced at a… read more
June 28, 2012, Filed Under: AuthorsDriftwood in an archive Writer Jim Crace, author of Continent (1986), Arcadia (1992), Quarantine (1997), Being Dead (1999), and The Pesthouse (2007), speaks about ephermera in archives and the narratives and stories they provide. Crace elaborates about a piece of driftwood found in his archive that contains a note that was later incorporated into… read more
