Who owns Beckett? (Press Release)
The University of Reading has been awarded a prestigious grant to lead an international network that investigates the changing nature of literary manuscript culture in a global context. Given that...
View ArticleUnseen Le Petit Prince pages land for auction
Experts have discovered two unpublished pages from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince which cast new light on the children’s classic and will be auctioned in May… Read the full article in The...
View ArticleWidening Access to Joyce Archives
The National Library of Ireland has put its collection of James Joyce manuscripts online, free of charge. Read the full story in The Irish Times and The Huffington Post.
View ArticleReading Workshop Review
Opening Workshop: Questions of Location, Ownership and Interpretation (University of Reading, June 7th and 8th, 2012) In referring to literary archives today, we use the word “diasporic” in a number of...
View ArticleUNESCO Conference
The Memory of the World in the Digital age: Digitization and Preservation UNESCO proposes to organize an international conference from 26 to 28 September 2012 in Vancouver (BC) Canada, to explore the...
View ArticlePapers of a Puerto Rican Poet Will Find a Home at Columbia
In 1996, Jack Agüeros, a Puerto Rican author and advocate who wrote sonnets about poor immigrants and Latino street life, would have seemed an unlikely candidate for inclusion in the library of New...
View ArticleSale of Manuscripts of Émilie Du Châtelet and Voltaire
An appeal for donations has been launched to help the French State acquire the manuscripts of Émilie Du Châtelet and Voltaire that will be sold at auction in Paris by Christie’s on 29 October. The...
View ArticleBritish Library acquires the archive of Caribbean British poet and writer,...
The British Library has acquired the archive of the Caribbean British poet and writer, James Berry OBE. James Berry, one of the first black writers in [ Read more... ]
View ArticleJack Kerouac’s manuscript scroll on display at The British Library
The British Library are exhibiting the manuscript scroll of Jack Kerouac’s novel On the Road until December 27, 2012. For more details on the exhibition visit [ Read more... ]
View ArticleHuge Franz Kafka archive to be made public
An Israeli judge has ruled that a disputed cache of papers belonging to Max Brod should be published. Carried out of Prague in a suitcase in [ Read more... ]
View ArticleSaving francophone literary manuscripts
In September we participated in a one-day workshop in Paris entitled “Saving francophone literary manuscripts: towards a global charter for their material and immaterial deposit”, organized [ Read...
View ArticleUNESCO Digitization Conference
The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation In cooperation with the University of British Columbia (Canada) UNESCO organized an international conference [ Read more... ]
View ArticleCecil Day-Lewis papers donated to Bodleian Library
Tamasin and Daniel Day-Lewis have donated the poet laureate’s archive, which includes manuscripts and a letter from WH Auden, to the Bodleian Library in Oxford. In a statement Tamasin [ Read more... ]
View ArticleÉmilie Du Châtelet manuscripts auction in Paris
The following is an update to our October 1 post regarding the sale of Émilie Du Châtelet’s manuscripts in Paris on October 29: The long-awaited auction [ Read more... ]
View ArticleSam Selvon Collection
Sam Selvon collection placed in Memory of the World register The Memory of the World Committee for Latin America and the Caribbean (MOWLAC) has inscribed the [ Read more... ]
View ArticleQuestions of Language and Location
The papers of Portuguese author José Saramago have found a permanent home in Lisbon without the sort of purchasing battle that might accompany the acquisition of [ Read more... ]
View ArticleRevelatory Sassoon papers to be auctioned
A significant collection of literary manuscripts by Siegfried Sassoon are to be sold through Bonhams. Of particular note is the manuscript of Sassoon’s poem ‘Atrocities’ which reveals how [ Read...
View ArticleReading Italy Interview
An interview with Dr David Sutton, Prinicipal Investigator of the Diasporic Literary Archives Network, has been included in the latest edition of Reading Italy, a University [ Read more... ]
View ArticleWomen in Translation
WORDS without BORDERS, a website dedicated to promoting the translation of foreign language writing into English, recently posted a dispatch by author and translator Alison Anderson [ Read more... ]
View ArticleWhat Makes an Archive?
Canadian writer and editor Kerry Clare has posted a review of Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives on her literary blog [ Read more... ]
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