Date: Thursday 10th October 2019

Time: 7pm 

Location: International Anthony Burgess Foundation

Tickets: £8 - Available here

For the 2019 Anthony Burgess Lecture, the novelist and biographer Dame Margaret Drabble will present a specially commissioned talk on literary reputations.

Taking Anthony Burgess’s grand, late bid for immortality, Earthly Powers, as a starting point, the lecture will explore how we remember writers and the power of posterity.

Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield and is the author of 19 novels including A Summer Bird-Cage, The Millstone, The Pure Gold Baby and The Dark Flood Rises. She has also written biographies and screenplays.

This event is presented in partnership with the Manchester Literature Festival.

Andrew Biswell is Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation and Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University.