To celebrate the reopening of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Anthony Burgess’s home city of Manchester, here is Burgess’s article ‘I Am A Mancunian’, first published in the Manchester Evening News in December 1984. Telling Southerners that I am a Mancunian, I sometimes get the silly response ‘What did you say – a Manchurian?’ […]

ONE: He received a fan letter from Umberto Eco. They met when Burgess was living in Rome in the early 1970s. Eco, who worked as a radio producer, interviewed Burgess in connection with Joysprick, a book about the language of James Joyce. Later on, Burgess wrote favourable reviews of a number of Eco’s books, including The […]