Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess FRSL
Burgess in 1986
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]
Occupation	Novelist critic composer librettist playwright screenwriter essayist travel writer broadcaster translator linguist educationalist
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 ​ ​ (m. 1942; died 1968)​ Liana Macellari ​ (m. 1968)​
Children	Paolo Andrea (1964–2002)
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, FRSL (/ˈbɜːrdʒəs/;^[2] 25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) who published under the name Anthony Burgess, was a British writer and composer.

Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel.^[3] In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced numerous 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.^[4][5]

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.^[6]