We are delighted to welcome the award-winning pianist Stéphane Ginsburgh to the Burgess Foundation for a special concert performance. Anthony Burgess composed his 24 Preludes and Fugues (subtitled ‘The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard’) in 1985, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This ingenious and inventive piece, with its brief romantic […]
Electronic musician Scanner heads up an evening of special musical performances inspired by the rarely-heard cassette archive of the author Anthony Burgess. This event previews a forthcoming double-LP of rare archival material and exclusive remixes, curated by artist Alan Dunn in collaboration with Guy-Marc Hinant. The event features The Reverend Max Ripple, Foreign Investment, David […]
For the 2019 Anthony Burgess Lecture, the novelist and biographer Dame Margaret Drabble will present a specially commissioned talk on literary reputations. Taking Anthony Burgess’s grand, late bid for immortality, Earthly Powers, as a starting point, the lecture will explore how we remember writers and the power of posterity. Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield […]
Manchester Indie Book Fair returns in September after a hugely successful outing back in February. The book fair is organised by independent publisher Dostoyevsky Wannabe in association with the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and will feature a range of indie presses and zines from Manchester and beyond. Already confirmed are: Comma, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, Carcanet, Confingo, […]
You are invited to the launch of Anthony Burgess and Modernism, a new exhibition exploring Burgess’s relationship to twentieth century art. Throughout his life, Burgess took inspiration from modernism in his creative work. His reading as a young man included James Joyce, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf; and he listened to Stravinsky, Schoenberg […]
You are invited to a discussion that sheds new light on some of the most dynamic and significant writers from South Asia and South East Asia. This event marks the publication of the tenth volume of The Oxford History of the Novel in English, a series which covers internationally recognised novelists and showcases under-represented writers […]
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation presents the centenary conference, ANTHONY BURGESS: LIFE, WORK, REPUTATION. The centenary offers an opportunity to initiate new debates about Anthony Burgess’s biography and his wide-ranging artistic work. This conference welcomes an international group of Burgess experts presenting papers on subjects spanning Burgess’s early life in the north-west of England, his […]
A concert of brand new music inspired by Anthony Burgess’s novel M/F, a book that deals with riddles, delinquency, incest and talking birds. Four composers will present specially commissioned work for violin, cello, flute, clarinet, percussion, with spoken word and visuals. M/F tells the story of a college drop-out who sets out on a pilgrimage in which he meets […]
Penguin Classics, in partnership with the Barbican, presents a series of book club events, each focusing on an iconic title from the Science Fiction genre. These events are open to all, although it is recommended that attendees have a familiarity with the title being discussed. In the first book club event of the series, Henry […]
Manchester Collective and the International Anthony Burgess Foundation present Inside Mr Enderby, an electrifying song cycle by Huw Belling to celebrate the #Burgess100 centenary. The comic novel Inside Mr Enderby was published in 1963 under Burgess’s pseudonym Joseph Kell. The book’s centenary interpretation for a modern audience is the first in Manchester Collective’s series […]