In this guest blog, Will Franken, who was shortlisted for the 2025 Observer/Anthony Burgess Prize, reviews the Irwell Edition of The Clockwork Testament by Anthony Burgess, edited by Ákos Farkas and published by Manchester University Press. A question looms over the recent Irwell edition of Anthony Burgess’s The Clockwork Testament (1974), which is why have […]
In October 2024 I volunteered at the Burgess Foundation, where I assisted with a project to catalogue objects in the archive in preparation for digitisation. My academic background in History of Art has given me an interest in the politics of the museum, the ways in which visitors interact with a space, and how this […]
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2025 Observer / Anthony Burgess Prize for Arts Journalism. Now in its fourteenth year, the prize exists to recognise and reward new talent in writing about the arts. Its other purpose is to commemorate the long connection between Anthony Burgess and the Observer newspaper, to which […]
Introduction to One Man’s Chorus by Ben Forkner This memoir of Anthony Burgess appeared as the introduction to One Man’s Chorus: The Uncollected Writings, a selection of Burgess’s journalism, edited by Ben Forkner and published in New York by Carroll & Graf in 1998. We are grateful to Ben Forkner for kindly giving permission to reproduce […]
In 1969 Anthony Burgess started a month-long residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It was an important period for Burgess in many ways, giving him his first extended visit to an American university campus, and it helped to develop the American influence on novels such as MF and Earthly Powers. While […]
Anthony Burgess was born on 25 February 1917. On the occasion of his 108th birthday, we look forward to future publications and other forthcoming Burgess-related events. It was Amol Rajan, the presenter of University Challenge and the Today programme on BBC Radio 4, who spoke recently of ‘the great, late Anthony Burgess.’ Of his lateness […]
Translating Burgess / Burgess Translating We are pleased to invite applications for a funded PhD studentship, which will focus on translations of Burgess’s novels, and the work of Anthony and Liana Burgess as literary translators. The successful candidate will be jointly supervised by University of Manchester and the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. The deadline for […]
In which our author hunts for the Moonstone and rewrites Sherlock Holmes. Although Anthony Burgess is often thought of as an upmarket literary writer, he was deeply engaged throughout his writing life with popular forms of writing. Beyond his involvement in writing historical fiction, science fiction, and Cold War spy novels, he had a serious […]
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. […]
In 1984, Anthony Burgess published Ninety-Nine Novels, a selection of his favourite novels in English since 1939. The list is typically idiosyncratic, and shows the breadth of Burgess’s interest in fiction. This podcast, by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation, explores the novels on Burgess’s list with the help of writers, critics and other special guests. […]