Anthony Burgess

Anthony Burgess was a novelist, critic, composer and broadcaster, born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester. He taught in Britain and Malaya before becoming a full-time writer. His first published novel, Time for a Tiger, appeared in 1956 under the name Anthony Burgess and became part of his Malayan Trilogy.

His fiction includes A Clockwork Orange, The Wanting Seed and Nothing Like the Sun. He also wrote criticism and journalism, translated literature and composed music. The range of his work extended across novels, stage and screen, drawing on sustained interests in language, musical form and the possibilities of storytelling.