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1199.0. "Anthony Burgess" by VERGA::KLAES (Quo vadimus?) Fri Nov 26 1993 18:44

Article: 1485
From: clarinews@clarinet.com (UPI)
Newsgroups: clari.news.europe,clari.news.books,clari.news.urgent
Subject: Writer Anthony Burgess dies
Date: Thu, 25 Nov 93 7:18:18 PST
 
	LONDON (UPI) -- Anthony Burgess, one of Britain's most prolific
quality writers whose futuristic thriller ``A Clockwork Orange'' became
a modern classic, has died of cancer in a London hospital, his publisher
said Thursday. He was 76.

	A statement from Hutchinson publishers said Burgess had been fighting
cancer for some time but gave no other details.

	In addition to his more than 50 novels, Burgess also wrote at least
15 non-fiction works and through most of his career was active writing
reviews and articles for numerous periodicals.

	Burgess was also a composer and linguist, and said in one interview
that he only turned to writing novels full-time to make money and
regretted the time away from other pursuits.

	``A Clockwork Orange,'' published in 1962, is the best known of
Burgess's dark surreal novels. It was made into a film by director
Stanley Kubrick in 1973.

	Burgess was born and educated in Manchester, in the north of England,
and spent the first part of his adult life as a teacher, including time
in the Colonial Service in Malaya and Borneo.