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Liana Burgess | Books | The Guardian

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BooksObituaryLiana BurgessItalian-born translator, she was the second wife and team-mate of Anthony BurgessThe 1966 Who's Who entry of the writer Anthony Burgess listed, under hobbies, "wife". It aroused controversy, not quelled by his explanation that any marriage brings "a private language, a system of codes and signals which would be incomprehensible to outsiders". It was not even that simple. In 1968 the translator Liana Burgess, who has died aged 78, was to become his second wife. Read More...

Photos from Prince: A Life in Pictures

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In 2010, Prince famously declared in an interview with The Daily Mirror that "The Internet's completely over." "I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else," he said. "They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it." In a 2015 interview with The Guardian, he clarified, "What I meant was that the Internet was over for anyone who wants to get paid, and I was right about that. Read More...