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 of Reading Italian Studies Postgraduate…Read More >

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 much the language of…Read More >

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 the papers of a…Read More >

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 collection of the late…Read More >

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 of the Du Châtelet…Read More >

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 and Daniel Day-Lewis said…Read More >

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 from 26 to 28…Read More >

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 by the French research…Read More >

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 1939 and kept hidden…Read More >

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 The British Library website.

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 Britain to be widely…Read More >

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…Read More >