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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 28 January 1935
- Died
- 1 January 2025
- Works
- 176
Top works
- Vatican roulette
- Paradise News
- Ḥilufe meḳomot
- Ḥoshev...
- Die allerneueste klassische Sau
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Film & TV
Dulwich, London, England, UK
Known for
- Dangerous Edge: A Life of Graham Greene — Self2013
- Family Guy — Kelsey Grammer (voice)1999
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Key facts
- Born
- David John Lodge , ( 1935-01-28 ) 28 January 1935, London, England
- Died
- 1 January 2025 (2025-01-01) (aged 89), Birmingham , England
- Occupation
- Writer author literary critic
- Notable awards
- Hawthornden Prize , 1975
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- John
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Place of death
- Birmingham
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Employer
- University of Birmingham
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- literary theory
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- date of birth
- 1935-01-28
- member of
- Royal Society of Literature
- name in native language
- David Lodge
- birth name
- David John Lodge
- different from
- David Lodge
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- date of death
- 2025-01-01
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Works in European collections
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Encyclopedic overview
David John Lodge CBE FRSL (28 January 1935 – 1 January 2025) was an English novelist and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960).
Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T. S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a collection of essays on literary techniques with illustrative examples from great authors, such as "Point of View" (Henry James), "The Stream of Consciousness" (Virginia Woolf) and "Interior Monologue" (James Joyce), beginning with "Beginning" and ending with "Ending".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “David Lodge” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.