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David Lodge was born in London in 1935. He was educated at University College London, where he took his BA degree in 1955 and his MA in 1959. In between he did National Service in the British Army. He holds a doctorate from the University of Birmingham, where he taught in the English Department from 1960 until 1987, when he retired to become a full-time writer. He retains the title of Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at Birmingham and continues to live there. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
David Lodge's novels include The Picturegoers (1960); Ginger, You're Barmy (1962); The British Museum is Falling Down (1965); Out of the Shelter (1970); Changing Places (1975), for which he was awarded both the Hawthornden Prize and the Yorkshire Post Fiction Prize; How Far Can You Go?, which was Whitbread Book of the Year in 1980; Small World, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1984; Nice Work, which won the 1988 Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize; Paradise News (1991); and Therapy, regional winner and finalist for the 1996 Commonwealth Writers Prize. David Lodge has written several books on literary criticism, including Language of Fiction (1966), The Novelist at the Crossroads (1971), The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), Working with Structuralism (1981), Modern Criticism and Theory (editor, 1988) and After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism (1990). In addition, he has published Write On (1986), a selection of occasional essays, and The Art of Fiction (1992), a collection of articles which originally appeared in the Independent on Sunday. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and many of his books are available in Penguin.
Small World was adapted as a television serial in 1988 and he himself adapted Nice Work, which won the Royal Television Society's Award for the best drama serial of 1989 and a Silver Nymph at the International Television Festival in Monte Carlo in 1990. In 1994, he adapted Martin Chuzzlewit for a six-part BBC serial. His first stage play, The Writing Game, was produced at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1990, and he adapted it for Channel 4 in 1995. A further stage play, Home Truths, was also first produced at the Birmingham Repertory in 1998 and was adapted as a novella in 1999.
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