Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's archive bought by University of Texas

Collection includes discarded opening chapter for The Remains of the Day, as well as extensive notes and multiple drafts of the writer’s works

Kazuo Ishiguro says he has been in the habit of throwing all papers produced during his writing into a box kept under his desk. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

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Sunday 23 August 2015  The Observer

The archives of the award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, including a discarded opening chapter for his best-known book, The Remains of the Day, have been bought by the University of Texas. The novelist, who was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and has lived in Britain since he was a child, has kept extensive notes and multiple drafts of his works, which include Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant.

The collection will be held by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, a research library that is a major collector of manuscripts and original source material. The university paid just over $1m (£635,000) to acquire the material, a library spokeswoman said.

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