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 >
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Sale 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…Read More >
Papers 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…Read More >
UNESCO 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…Read More >
Reading 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…Read More >
Unseen 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Experts have discovered two unpublished pages from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince which cast new light on the children’s classic and will be auctioned in May… Read the full…Read More >
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…Read More >