Actor

Anthony Burgess

Writing

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Movies: 9Series: 8Crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 2262

IMDb ID: nm0121256

Known for: Writing

Born: February 25, 1917

Died: November 22, 1993

Age: 76

Place of birth: Manchester, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1965 - 2011

Years active: 47

Average TMDB rating: 6.83

Wikidata: Q217619

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Biography

John Anthony Burgess Wilson (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English writer and composer. Although Burgess was primarily a comic writer, his dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange remains his best-known novel. In 1971, it was adapted into a controversial film by Stanley Kubrick, which Burgess said was chiefly responsible for the popularity of the book. Burgess produced a number of other novels, including the Enderby quartet, and Earthly Powers. He wrote librettos and screenplays, including the 1977 television mini-series Jesus of Nazareth. He worked as a literary critic for several publications, including The Observer and The Guardian, and wrote studies of classic writers, notably James Joyce. A versatile linguist, Burgess lectured in phonetics, and translated Cyrano de Bergerac, Oedipus Rex, and the opera Carmen, among others. Burgess was nominated and shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973. Burgess also composed over 250 musical works; he considered himself as much a composer as an author, although he achieved considerably more success in writing.