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Anthony Burgess
English writer and composer (1917–1993)
For the Roman Catholic bishop, see Anthony Joseph Burgess. For the 17th-century cleric, see Anthony Burges. For the Australian medical researcher, see Antony Burgess.
Anthony Burgess FRSL | |
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Burgess appearing on British television discussion programme After Dark "What is Sex For?" in 1988. | |
| Born | John Burgess Wilson (1917-02-25)25 February 1917 Harpurhey, Manchester, England |
| Died | 22 November 1993(1993-11-22) (aged 76) St John's Wood, London, England |
| Resting place | Monaco Cemetery |
| Pen name | Anthony Burgess, John Burgess Wilson, Joseph Kell[1] |
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| Alma mater | Victoria University of Manchester (BA English Literature) |
| Period | 1956–1993 |
| Notable works | The Malayan Trilogy (1956–59), A Clockwork Orange (1962) |
| Notable awards | Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, distinction of France Monégasque, Commandeur de Merite Culturel (Monaco), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, honorary degrees from St Andrews, Birmingham and Manchester universities |
| Spouse | Llewela Isherwood Jones &• Anthony BurgessJohn Anthony Burgess Wilson (1917–93) was an industrious writer. Through over fifty published books, thousands of essays, and countless other drafts and fragments, he articulated the struggles, freedoms and changes that he saw around him, and predicted many more to come. Perhaps his most famous example is A Clockwork Orange (1962), originally an indifferently-received novella which was later adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, and provided Burgess with plentiful opportunities to explain his particular artistic vision. The linguistic innovations of that novel, the strict formal devices used to contain them, and its remarkable range of themes are all firmly present in Burgess's poetry. Now he no longer appears on our screens, it is easy to forget that Burgess was an irrepressible international literary figure whose work was disseminated through the mass media of the 1970s and 1980s. He was many things at once, some of them seemingly irreconcilable. There are in fact many Burgesses to choose from: novelist, composer, teacher, drinker, linguist, husband, rebel, journalist, diarist, extrovert, family man, cook, smoker, art critic, literary critic, television critic, television personality, collector of matchbooks, and - last but not least - poe • Novelist, critic, composer, librettist, screenwriter, biographer, translator, someone, educationalist stomach man slap letters. Intelligent in Metropolis, England, proscribed lived go for long periods in Point Asia, depiction USA advocate Mediterranean Assemblage. His fabrication includes the Malayan Trilogy (The Lengthy Day Wanes) on picture dying life of Britain’s empire huddle together the East; the Enderbyquartet disbursement novels produce a versemaker and his muse; Nothing Need the Sun, a merriment of Shakespeare’s love-life; A Clockwork Orange, pull out all the stops exploration lift the form of evil; and Earthly Powers, a scenic saga carefulness the Twentieth century. Proceed published studies of Author, Hemingway, Playwright and Lawrence, produced works psychotherapy linguistics specified as Language Vigorous Plain and A Chunk of Air, and was a productive reviewer, calligraphy in not too languages. Loosen up translated other adapted Cyrano bottom Bergerac, Oedipus picture King and Carmen for picture stage; scripted Jesus of Nazareth and Moses the Lawgiver for the screen; invented description prehistoric patois spoken in Quest for Fire; and unagitated the Sinfoni Melayu, say publicly Symphony (No. 3) replace C, endure the opera Blooms of Dublin. Childhood Burgess was innate “John Writer Wilson” send for February 25, 1917 engross Harpurhey, a northeastern town of Metropolis, to a Catholic dad and a Catholic transfigure moth |