Honours
- Burgess garnered the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres distinction of France and became a Monégasque Commandeur de Merite Culturel (Monaco).
- He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
- He took honorary degrees from St Andrews, Birmingham and Manchester universities.
- Earthly Powers was shortlisted for, but failed to win, the 1980 English Booker Prize for fiction (the prize went to William Golding for Rites of Passage).
- The University of Manchester unveiled a plaque, October 2012, that reads: "The University of Manchester commemorates Anthony Burgess, 1917-1993, Writer and Composer, Graduate, BA English 1940". It was the first monument to Burgess in the United Kingdom.
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