I remember both Anthony and Liana Burgess well and with affection. The first time I met Anthony Burgess was after the publication of his book A Shorter Finnegans Wake. I was then an undergraduate in Trinity College Dublin and presented a paper to the Philosophical Society about James Joyce circa 1964. Anthony Burgess was the […]

I first met Anthony in 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He had been invited to lecture at Simon Fraser University. I was then on the faculty of Royal Roads in Victoria, a branch of the Royal Military College. His lecture was well attended, and he delighted the audience with accounts of his travels that had […]

  Our new exhibition examines Anthony Burgess’s experiences in Malaya in the 1950s, where he worked as a teacher at the Malay College in Kuala Kangsar and at the Malayan Teachers’ Training College at Kota Bharu in the district of Kelantan. As a fluent speaker of Malay and Chinese, Burgess was able to experience the […]

The International Anthony Burgess Foundation invites papers to be presented at the centenary conference, ANTHONY BURGESS: LIFE, WORK, REPUTATION. The conference will take place in Manchester on 3, 4, and 5 July 2017. The conference will have three main points of focus: LIFE Born and educated in Manchester, Burgess spent the Second World War in […]

The various agents of Anthony Burgess, by Graham Foster.

The second in a series of new articles from our Cultural Engagement Fellow, Martin Kratz.

The first blog post by Cultural Engagement Fellow, Martin Kratz.

The discovery of a previously unknown text by Burgess about his favourite novel, James Joyce’s Ulysses.

Burgess’s 1963 review of The Bell Jar.

Burgess’s literary and musical responses to the famous poet. By Andrew Biswell