A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess. Pan Books, 1964.

London | Underworld | Fleshpots | Kinky types | Hilarious chase sequence | Bald man with moody stare lighting cigarette | The Doctor Is Sick by Anthony Burgess.

The Shakespeare biography by Anthony Burgess was published in Chinese translation in 2015. His Shakespeare novel, Nothing Like the Sun, followed in 2019.

Anthony Burgess condemned The Beatles as "drivel" and doubted the critical faculties of their followers. But he displayed a curious affinity with the Fab Four, says Michael Shallcross. Read more: A Hell of Noise: Anthony Burgess vs the Beatles 🔗 inscribingpandemonium.wordpress.com/2024/09/09/a-h…

The first Spanish translation of A Shorter Finnegans Wake, edited by Anthony Burgess, has just been published by HCEditores in Argentina.

We're admiring this new Spanish translation of A Shorter Finnegans Wake, edited by Anthony Burgess. The Joyce illustration is marvellous – you can see the same design in their edition of Burgess's Re Joyce. Both books are published by HCEditores (Argentina).

On this week’s newsletter, we explore a little-known award Anthony Burgess received for his fiction, one of the few he won in Britain. Subscribe for FREE to receive weekly posts like this one: anthonyburgessfoundation.substack.com

Anthony Burgess’s annotated copy of Finnegans Wake includes useful notes on how to pronounce the thundred-letter word. #jamesjoyce

Stanley Kubrick filming Malcolm McDowell for A Clockwork Orange, 1972

Anthony Burgess / Nothing Like the Sun Ballantine, 1965

Congratulations to Elisa Mantin and Benoit Felici, whose documentary A Clockwork Orange: The Prophecy has won the 2024 Grand Prix at Croatia's History Film Festival. 🏆 historyfilmfestival.com/web/en/nagrade/

The Grand Prix is the second prize awarded to the film, which also won Best Literature Documentary at the Masters of Art Film Festival in Bulgaria. You can watch the French version of the film here: arte.tv/fr/videos/1117…

Biographer Katherine Bucknell Katherine Bucknell will reveal all about Christopher Isherwood (Goodbye to Berlin, A Single Man) on 24 October. We advise booking your ticket now before the event sells out. eventbrite.co.uk/e/christopher-…

When Anthony Burgess turned 75, he thought about forming a pensioners' army to annoy the young and the middle-aged.