The runner-up in the 2013 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism.

Burgess’s ballade for his first wife. By Andrew Biswell.

Prize-giving ceremony to follow on Thursday 20 Feb at Kings Place, London.

Images and audio from the evening. By Clare Preston-Pollitt

The Italian edition of Burgess’s comic novel about structural anthropology. By Will Carr.

The German edition of Burgess’s autobiographically-inspired novel. By Will Carr