Author Archives: David Sutton

Literary Archives in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library

By Special Collections (Archive Management), the CUHK Library 香港中文大學圖書館的檔案館藏 (CUHK Library Archival Collections) 成立於 2014 年,專門整理及保存歷年來各界人士捐贈的檔案資料,以供讀者閱覽和研究。檔案館藏涵蓋文學、藝術、社會和歷史等範疇,包括手稿、函牘、剪報、照片、檔案和畫作等資料。藏品當中的 劉以鬯文獻、盧瑋鑾文獻、舒巷城手稿 和 古兆申手稿 等,對研究香港的文學、社會和文化狀況極具價值。此外,館藏的霍克思文獻 (David Hawkes papers)、高行健特藏 (Gao Xingjian collection) 和北島 (Bei Dao) 的手稿資料等,都是珍貴的文學研究資料。  

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Literary Archives in Austria

The many delegates gathered at the meeting of the International Comparative Literature Association in Vienna in July 2016 were able to see for themselves the good work which is being done in Austria in respect of collecting literary archives. Three … Continue reading

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Ein wirklich kleines Literaturarchiv auf einer Insel

Rosa Haus, Museum Insel Hombroich Erbaut 1816, Sitz vom Literatur- und Künstinstitut Hombroich. Schwerpunkt deutsch-jüdische Literatur und kritische Intelligenz des 20. Jahrhunderts, zugänglich im Rahmen von Führungen. Rosa Haus, Museum Insel Hombroich, Minkel 2, D-41472 Neuss, Deutschland: http://www.inselhombroich.de. [Built in … Continue reading

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Literary Archives in Chile

The acquisition by Princeton University of the archival papers and correspondence of the Chilean author Diamela Eltit (born 1949) has raised once again many of the questions which were discussed by the Diasporic Literary Archives Network. The National Library of … Continue reading

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SLA Projects 2016-2017

Project work is an important part of the activity of any Section of the International Council on Archives. Within ICA, these are difficult times for the funding of Sections, and a number of our projects may go ahead without receiving … Continue reading

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Literary Archives in Uruguay

One of the outcomes of the project on literary archives in Namibia was the drafting of an agreement between the National Archives of Namibia and the National Library of Namibia which determined that the collecting of literary documents in Namibia … Continue reading

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Archives Littéraires de la Modernité (ALMé), à la Sorbonne

La Bibliothèque littéraire Jacques Doucet propose, depuis décembre 2015, une bibliothèque littéraire des Archives Littéraires de la Modernité (ALMé). Celle-ci se compose de cinq corpus d’auteurs. Ces corpus comprennent les manuscrits d’auteurs de la BLJD entrés dans le domaine public, … Continue reading

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World-Wide Directory of Repositories holding Artistic & Literary Archives

SLA’s World-Wide Directory of Repositories holding Artistic & Literary Archives was revised, updated and expanded during the last three months of 2015, with the help of a small grant from ICA’s Programme Commission (PCOM). I would like now to invite … Continue reading

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Happy New Year 2016

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Best wishes to all our members and our readers, and to all friends of SLA, whichever calendar you use. For those who use the western calendar, a happy new year for 2016. In 2015 the SLA blog received over 20,000 … Continue reading

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Literary sources in the archives of military intelligence

The post on this site about literary papers within business archives attracted some attention and comment. A more unusual example of literary papers within non-literary collections was described in a recent article by Lara Feigel (“File number P.F.97,471: anti-imperialist authoress”, … Continue reading

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