A financial boost for Hanif Kureishi?

 
23 January 2014

The British Library today announced that it has acquired the diaries, drafts and manuscripts of writer Hanif Kureishi, with the documents spanning 40 years of his life.

A much-needed boost to the My Beautiful Laundrette author’s bank account? In 2012 Kureishi suffered a serious setback when he lost £120,000 in a property scam he had been advised to invest in.

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