The University of Texas at Austin will digitise 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 Centre to undertake the digitalisation. Beginning in June 2016, the 18-month project, titled “Sharing ‘Gabo’ with the World: Building the Gabriel García Márquez Online Archive from His Papers at the Harry Ransom Centre,” will involve scanning manuscripts, notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs and ephemera from the archive and making them accessible online.

The materials date from 1950 through 2013. “This project is notable for many reasons, including providing online access to copyright-protected archival material by one of the most revered literary figures of our time,” said Stephen Enniss, director of the centre.

“There are few opportunities for researchers to access digitised archives of contemporary authors. This initiative is possible due to the enthusiastic support and endorsement of García Márquez’s family.” 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 October 21. A small selection of digitised items from the archive is currently available.