Univ. of Texas will digitize thousands of pages from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's archive
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The University of Texas at Austin will digitize more than 24,000 pages from the archive of Colombian novelist and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
The university said Monday that a $126,730 grant from the nonprofit Council on Library and Information Resources will enable the school's Harry Ransom Center to undertake the digitalization.
The 18-month project is set to start in June. It will involve scanning manuscripts, notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs and ephemera and making them accessible online. The materials date from 1950 through 2013.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The school announced the acquisition of the archive in November 2014. The writer died in April 2014.
The university says the archive opened for research on Oct. 21. A small selection of digitized items from the archive is currently available.