Editing Anthony Burgess (section)

== Honours ==
* Burgess garnered the ''[[Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres]]'' distinction of France and became a Monégasque ''[[Order of Cultural Merit (Monaco)|Commandeur de Merite Culturel]]'' ([[Monaco]]).
* He was a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]].
* In 1991 he was awarded the title of [[Companion of Literature]] by the [[Royal Society of Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rsliterature.org/award/companions-of-literature/|title=Companions of Literature|date=2 September 2023 |publisher=Royal Society of Literature}}</ref>
* He took honorary degrees from [[University of St Andrews|St Andrews]], [[University of Birmingham|Birmingham]] and [[Victoria University of Manchester|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'').