Charlie Higson donates Fast Show scripts to UEA literary archive

Young Bond author was going to throw away manuscripts that will now sit alongside works by JD Salinger and Doris Lessing

The comic writer and actor Charlie Higson couldn’t help but see the funny side when his alma mater, the University of East Anglia, asked him to consider transferring his archive of manuscripts to its care. It happened shortly after he had tossed two boxes of papers into a skip, assuming they were of no value.

UEA will announce this week that his papers will go into its British Archive for Contemporary Writing, whose literary holdings include Malcolm Bradbury and JD Salinger. The university has an international reputation for creative writing through its MA, with Ian McEwan among its alumni.

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