Hawthornden Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 39 (1975) Winner
David Lodge
デイヴィッド・ジョョン・ロッジ
David John Lodge
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1935-01-28 （Brockley, London, England）
- Died
- 2025-01-01 （Birmingham, England） age 89
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Religion
- Raised Catholic (later agnostic Catholic)
- Residence History
- Brockley (London) → Birmingham (worked and lived) → Providence (period at Brown University) → San Francisco (residence/visit)
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Literary critic, Playwright, Screenwriter, Professor
- Active Years
- 1955-2025
- Affiliations
- University of Birmingham (Professor; Honorary Professor), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), Harkness Fellow (period in the United States)
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
- Influenced By
- Graham Greene, Malcolm Bradbury, Mikhail Bakhtin (theoretical influence)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath | — | Secondary education (English) | — | 〜1952 | United Kingdom |
| University College London (UCL) | Faculty of Arts | Department of English | Bachelor of Arts | 1952–1955 | United Kingdom |
| University of Birmingham | Faculty of Arts | Department of English | PhD (English) | 1959–1967（MA取得1959、PhD取得1967） | United Kingdom |
St Joseph's Academy, Blackheath
Secondary education (English)
Period:
〜1952
Country:
United Kingdom
Secondary (Catholic school)
University College London (UCL)
Faculty of Arts
/ Department of English
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts
Period:
1952–1955
Year of Graduation:
1955
Country:
United Kingdom
Graduated with first-class honours
University of Birmingham
Faculty of Arts
/ Department of English
Degree:
PhD (English)
Period:
1959–1967（MA取得1959、PhD取得1967）
Year of Graduation:
1967
Country:
United Kingdom
MA thesis on 'The Catholic Novel from the Oxford Movement to the Present Day'; PhD awarded 1967
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Hawthornden Prize | Changing Places | — | Hawthornden Prize committee | winner |
| 1980 | Whitbread Book of the Year | How Far Can You Go? | — | Whitbread (now Costa) | winner |
| 1988 | Sunday Express Book of the Year | Nice Work | — | Sunday Express | winner |
| 1984 | Booker Prize | Small World | — | The Booker Prize organization | shortlisted |
| 1988 | Booker Prize | Nice Work | — | The Booker Prize organization | shortlisted |
| 1996 | Commonwealth Writers' Prize (regional) | Therapy | Regional winner/finalist | Commonwealth Writers' Prize organization | regional winner/finalist |
| 1976 | Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) | — | — | Royal Society of Literature | elected |
| 1998 | Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) | — | — | The Crown (New Year Honours) | appointed |
| 1989 | Royal Television Society Award (Best Drama Serial) | TV adaptation 'Nice Work' (adapted by Lodge) | — | Royal Television Society | winner |
| 1990 | Monte-Carlo Television Festival – Silver Nymph | TV adaptation 'Nice Work' | — | Monte-Carlo Television Festival | winner |
Hawthornden Prize
1975
Work:
Changing Places
Organization:
Hawthornden Prize committee
Result:
winner
Whitbread Book of the Year
1980
Work:
How Far Can You Go?
Organization:
Whitbread (now Costa)
Result:
winner
Sunday Express Book of the Year
1988
Work:
Nice Work
Organization:
Sunday Express
Result:
winner
Booker Prize
1984
Work:
Small World
Organization:
The Booker Prize organization
Result:
shortlisted
Booker Prize
1988
Work:
Nice Work
Organization:
The Booker Prize organization
Result:
shortlisted
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (regional)
1996
Work:
Therapy
Category:
Regional winner/finalist
Organization:
Commonwealth Writers' Prize organization
Result:
regional winner/finalist
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
1976
Organization:
Royal Society of Literature
Result:
elected
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1998
Organization:
The Crown (New Year Honours)
Result:
appointed
Royal Television Society Award (Best Drama Serial)
1989
Work:
TV adaptation 'Nice Work' (adapted by Lodge)
Organization:
Royal Television Society
Result:
winner
Monte-Carlo Television Festival – Silver Nymph
1990
Work:
TV adaptation 'Nice Work'
Organization:
Monte-Carlo Television Festival
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Costa Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 10 (1980) Excellence Award
Commonwealth Writers' Prize
1 appearances
-
Edition 10 (1996) Winner
Works
Major Works
The Picturegoers
1960 Novel (post-war fiction)An early novel set around a cinema in post-war England, reflecting childhood experiences.
post-war societymemory
The British Museum Is Falling Down
1965 Novel (experimental / comic)A one-day novel featuring parodies and allusions to modernist works; a satirical comic experiment.
Catholicism and everyday lifereferences to modernism
Changing Places
1975 Novel (campus novel / satire)First of the campus trilogy about professors who swap posts between the UK and the US; satirizes cultural differences and academic life.
satire of academiacultural comparison
Small World: An Academic Romance
1984 Novel (campus novel / satire)A modern Grail-quest set in the international academic circuit, following academics' adventures and rivalries.
ambition in academiaArthurian motifs
Adaptations
- [Television series] Small World (TV) (1988)
Nice Work
1988 Novel (business vs academia / satire)Contrasts industry and academia to satirize work, gender and social issues; adapted for television.
industry vs academiasocial critique
Adaptations
- [Television series] Nice Work (TV) (1989)
Deaf Sentence
2008 Novel (later work / semi-autobiographical elements)Reflects the author's own hearing loss; deals with aging, memory and deafness with humour and poignancy.
deafnessageingautobiographical elements
Bibliography
- The Picturegoers (1960)
- Ginger You're Barmy (1962)
- The British Museum Is Falling Down (1965)
- Out of the Shelter (1970)
- Changing Places (1975)
- How Far Can You Go? (1980)
- Small World (1984)
- Nice Work (1988)
- Paradise News (1991)
- Therapy (1995)
- The Man Who Wouldn't Get Up and Other Stories (1998)
- Home Truths (1999, novella)
- Thinks... (2001)
- Author, Author (2004)
- Deaf Sentence (2008)
- A Man of Parts (2011)
- Quite a Good Time To Be Born: A Memoir, 1935–75 (2015)
- Writer's Luck: A Memoir: 1976–1991 (2018)
- Varying Degrees of Success: A Memoir: 1992–2020 (2020)
Adaptations
- Small World (TV series, 1988)
- Nice Work (TV series, 1989)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (BBC series, 1994, adapted)
- The Writing Game (TV broadcast, 1995)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- satirical and humoroustechnical, metafictional elementsclear narrative voice with theoretical insight
- Recurring Motifs
- Catholicism and tensions around sexuality/moralitysatire of academia (campus novels)post-war England, memory, family
Health
-
Deafness / hearing loss後年（中年以降、特に晩年に顕著）His hearing loss influenced later work and themes, notably in 'Deaf Sentence'; it affected his lived experience and narrative concerns.
Legacy
David Lodge is regarded as a leading satirist of academic life and a major figure in campus fiction; his critical writings and teaching also made significant contributions to English literary studies.
Academic Societies
- Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
Archives
- Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham – Special Collections (David Lodge Papers)
Quotes
-
“Each of my novels corresponds to a particular phase or aspect of my own life.”
Source: Interview excerpts / The Guardian et al. (2008)
Trivia
- Chaired the Booker Prize judges in 1989.
- Had three children; his son Christopher (born 1966) had Down syndrome.
- Evacuated with his mother to Surrey and Cornwall during WWII.
- Held a Harkness Fellowship in the United States; the experience influenced his fiction.