Anthony Burgess Biography

Fast Facts

• Wont he 1972 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation
• Has served as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• Studied English at the Victoria University fo Manchester
• Is best known as the writer of the novel "A Clockwork Orange․"
• His screenplay for the film version of his book "A Clockwork Orange" was considered extremely violent and rejected by director Stanley Kubrick
• Served in the Royal Army Medical Corps during World War II
• Spent some time working as a visiting professor at Princeton University, Citiy College of New York and Columbia University
• Taught himself how to speak and write in the Persian language
• Along with being a writer, he was an accomplished musician who produced a translation of the opera "Carmen" for the English National Opera
• Has worked at the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin College in Brunei