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A Short Biography of David John Lodge

Author Name:

David John Lodge

Born As:

David John Lodge

Other Names:

Born:

28 Jan 1935

Died:





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Novelist and Critic                          
Selected Works:

Fiction:

The Picturegoers - 1960
Ginger You're Barmy - 1962
The British Museum Is Falling Down - 1965
Out of the Shelter - 1970
Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses - 1975
How Far Can You Go? (US edition: Souls and Bodies) - 1980
Small World: An Academic Romance - 1984
Nice Work - 1988
Paradise News - 1991
A David Lodge Trilogy - 1993 - single volume comprising Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work
Therapy - 1995
The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up: And Other Stories - 1998
Home Truths - 1999 - novella - written from original play
Thinks ... - 2001
Author, Author - 2004
Deaf Sentence - 2008
A Man of Parts, H. G. Wells - 2011
[edit]Non-fiction
Language of Fiction - 1966
The Novelist at the Crossroads - 1971
The Modes of Modern Writing - 1977
Working with Structualism - 1981
Write On - 1986
After Bakhtin - 1990
The Art of Fiction - 1992
Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader - 1992
The Practice of Writing - 1997
Consciousness and the Novel - 2003
The Year of Henry James: The Story of a Novel - 2006

Theatre:

The Writing Game - 1990
Home Truths - 1999
[edit]Adaptations for television
Small World - 1988
Nice Work - 1989
Martin Chuzzlewit - 1994
The Writing Game - 1995.                          
                          
Awards and Recognition:

Winner of the Hawthornden Prize and the Yorkshire Post Fiction Prize - Changing Places
Whitbread Book of the Year  - 1980 - How Far Can You Go?
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize - 1984 - Small World
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize - 1988 - Nice Work
Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award - 1988 - Nice Work
Regional winner and finalist for the Commonwealth Writers Prize - 1996 - Therapy
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

The Television Serialization of Nice Work - Royal Television Society's Award for best Drama Seria - 1989 and a Silver Nymph at the International Television Festival, Monte Carlo - 1990.