Anthony Burgess died (25/11/1999)

Born Manchester, 1952.
Best known for _A Clockwork Orange_ (1952), filmed by Stanley Kubrick (1971).
Definitely a language buff. For his dystopian future, he invented a teen slang with a lot of Russian words in it. I liked "horror show" (хорошо 'good'). But I never finished the book. Never saw the movie either, though it was much talked about -- still gets an 8.2 on IMDb. From what I heard and saw of it, it struck me as glamorizing violence in a way that was very fashionable at the time, but not to my taste. Maybe I was wrong.
Anyhow, Burgess also created a prehistoric language for _Quest for Fire_. Or maybe two? Was that the one where the more advanced people spoke something that sounded suspiciously like Proto-Indo-European?
Wrote two popular books about language: Language Made Plain (1964) and A Mouthful of Air (1992). Both made the prestigeous "books I bought but never read" long-list. Anybody read them?