The International Anthony Burgess Foundation is a non-profit organization founded with the support of Liana Burgess to encourage and support research into the life and works of her husband.
The Foundation will arrange and promote conferences, seminars, festivals, teaching and research events, including a regular International Anthony Burgess Symposium to facilitate the discussion and exchange of ideas on all aspects of Burgess's work as a writer, musician, linguist and journalist. The inaugural Symposium is scheduled to take place during the summer of 2005. The Foundation also plans to organize an annual Anthony Burgess Summer School for students interested in Burgess's writing and music, and to use membership fees to establish scholarships for graduate students who are engaged in substantial research on any aspect of Burgess's work. Further details on the symposium and these other initiatives will be posted on the web site in the summer of 2004.
The Foundation is based in a three-storey Victorian house in Withington, a neighborhood in the south of Anthony Burgess's home city of Manchester, England. The building houses an extensive collection of books from Burgess's library as well as copies, scores and musical instruments that belonged to the writer and his son, Andrea. The house is open to the public, and the library and archives are accessible to Foundation members for the purpose of scholarly research.
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation is registered in with the UK Charities Commission (# 1102623).