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Liana Burgess, who died on Monday aged 78, was a translator, literary agent and the Italian second wife of the novelist Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange.
She was feared by publishers for her ability to drive a hard bargain on behalf of her husband's writing, and her prize-winning translations of Burgess's Malayan Trilogy and The End of the World News did much to secure his reputation as one of the major writers of the 20th century.
By the time he died in 1993, her shrewd negotiations had netted more than $3 million and 11 houses. She donated many of these assets to universities to promote Burgess' work.
