To mark the 30th publication anniversary of Byrne, we revisit Burgess’s posthumous novel. When Anthony Burgess died in November 1993, he had completed the typescript of his last work, a 150-page narrative poem titled Byrne: A Novel. Rumours of this novel began to circulate in the British press a few days after Burgess’s death was announced. The […]

This episode of the Burgess Foundation Podcast is the first in an occasional series in which we speak to the current translators of Anthony Burgess’s novels to find out the delights and challenges involved in making them understandable in different languages and cultures. Our first guest in this series is Ludger Tolksdorf, who has spent […]

To mark the 50th anniversary of the first release of Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation of A Clockwork Orange, we present a weekly online series Anthony Burgess at the Movies in which we zoom in on Anthony Burgess’s interest in cinema. What Burgess says: ‘One of the finest films Fritz Lang made for UFA. Where it […]

Burgess and the idea of a single European language