The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin recently announced that it has acquired the archive of Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel García Márquez, who authored the critically acclaimed magical realist novel, One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967).

The archive contains manuscripts for ten books, notebooks, photo albums, correspondence (more than 2,000 pieces, including letters from Carlos Fuentes and Graham Greene), and personal artifacts, including García Márquez’s Smith Corona typewriters and computers on which he produced his works. According to the statement, “The materials document the gestation and changes of García Márquez’s works, revealing the writer’s struggle with language and structure.”

“García Márquez is a giant of 20^th-century literature whose work brims with originality and wisdom,” said Bill Powers, president of the university. “The University of Texas at Austin—with expertise in both Latin America and the preservation and the study of the writing process—is the natural home for this very important collection. Our students, our faculty, and the state of Texas will benefit from it for years to come.”

Rodrigo García, one of the author’s sons, also expressed excitement at the news. "We are delighted that Gabo's archive will live at the great and unique Ransom Center, where generations of scholars and lovers of his work will be able to deepen their appreciation and understanding of his life and of his literary legacy.”

The archive will reside alongside other important archives at the University of Texas at Austin, including the work of Jorge Luis Borges, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, J.M. Coetzee, T.S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, Doris Lessing, George Bernard Shaw, John Steinbeck, and W.B. Yeats, among others.

To read more about García Márquez and his legacy, read the 1981 interview with García Márquez at The Paris Review, or the obituary by New York Times writer Jonathan Kandell from earlier this year.