Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In May 1963, Anthony Burgess was fired from his job as the fiction reviewer at the Yorkshire Post, for publishing a review of one of his own (pseudonymous) novels. That's a pretty bold move, especially for someone who was already a good writer to begin with. (Source)
Anthony Burgess was a prolific translator as well as a novelist, and his translation of Edmund Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac supplied the subtitles for the classic film starring Gérard Depardieu. The more you know. (Source)
Anthony Burgess also had a hand in the 1981 flick Quest for Fire. He developed the Neolithic languages that are spoken by the film's early-human characters. What. We didn't know you could just invent a language. (Source)