Lanark: A Life in Four Books
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Lanark, subtitled A Life in Four Books, is the first novel of Scottish writer Alasdair Gray. Written over a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of hi
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Anthony Burgess
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John Anthony Burgess Wilson, commonly known as Anthony Burgess, was an English writer, screenwriter, and composer.
Lanark: A Life in Four Books
…a period of almost thirty years, it combines realist and dystopian surrealist depictions of his home city of Glasgow. Its publication in 1981 prompted Anthony Burgess to call Gray "the best Scottish novelist since Walter Scott". Lanark won the inaugural Saltire Society Book of the Year award in 1982, and was also…
Burgess in 1988
The Malay College in Kuala Kangsar, Perak, where Burgess taught 1954–55
Burgess was an education officer at the Malay Teachers' Training College 1955 and 1958.
Burgess's grave marker at the Columbarium in Monaco's cemetery