Anthony Burgess

1917–1993

English novelist, critic and composer, born John Anthony Burgess Wilson in Manchester. After studying English at the University of Manchester and serving in the army during the Second World War, he worked as a teacher and colonial education officer in Malaya and Brunei, the setting of his Malayan Trilogy. He became a full-time writer around 1959 and published more than thirty novels, among them A Clockwork Orange (1962), Nothing Like the Sun and the Enderby books, alongside criticism, biography, libretti and orchestral music. He died in London in November 1993. Earthly Powers was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize.

Timeline of Anthony Burgess’s life

Works

• Earthly Powers (1980)

Prizes

• Earthly Powers — The Booker Prize 1980: Shortlist