David Lodge

1935–2025

English novelist and critic known for comic fiction about academic life and Roman Catholicism. Born in Dulwich and raised in Brockley, south-east London, he studied at University College London and taught English at the University of Birmingham from 1960 until 1987, becoming professor of English literature. His novels include The British Museum Is Falling Down, How Far Can You Go?, Changing Places, Small World, Therapy and Deaf Sentence, and his criticism includes The Art of Fiction. He died in Birmingham in January 2025. Nice Work, the final novel of his campus trilogy, was shortlisted for the 1988 Booker Prize.

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