Anthony Burgess

Known for WritingBorn 1917-02-25Died 1993-11-22Manchester, England, UK

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (/ˈbɜːrdʒəs/; 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, and the opera Carmen, among others. Burgess was nominated and shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. Burgess also composed over 250 musical works; he considered himself as much a composer as an author, although he achieved considerably more success in writing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Anthony Burgess, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Apostrophes

A Clockwork Orange

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

Le Grand Échiquier

Jesus of Nazareth

Once Upon a Time… A Clockwork Orange

Omnibus

The Dick Cavett Show

Cyrano de Bergerac

All My Loving

Moses the Lawgiver

À propos de 'La guerre du feu'

A.D.

Still Tickin': The Return of 'A Clockwork Orange'

Vinyl

James Joyce's 'Ulysses'

Make It New - a portrait of Anthony Burgess

Lots of Fun at Finnegans Wake, with Anthony Burgess