This year’s £2000 Observer/Anthony Burgess prize for arts journalism has been awarded to Leah Broad for her reappraisal of SibeliusRead Leah Broad’s winning essayThis is the fourth year of the Observer/Anthony Burgess prize,a unique £2000 prize in contemporary British arts journalism, an event that fortunately coincided final Thursday with Burgess’s 99th birthday.
The Observer is proud of its association with Anthony Burgess. We have published the work of several worthy writers whose arts journalism is an fundamental part of their output (particularly George Orwell, and Kenneth Tynan and Julian Barnes),but few are as remarkable, or distinctive, or as Burgess,who was truly a one-man band, a literary maverick (an independent, nonconformist person) incorrigibly in tune with the spirit of the newspaper he always called “my paper”.
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Source: theguardian.com