Hawthornden Prize
1回登壇
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第39回（1975年） Winner
David Lodge
デイヴィッド・ジョョン・ロッジ
David John Lodge
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1935-01-28 （Brockley, London, England）
- 死没
- 2025-01-01 （Birmingham, England） 89歳
- 国籍
- British
- 言語
- English
- 宗教
- Raised Catholic (later agnostic Catholic)
- 居住地歴
- Brockley (London) → Birmingham (worked and lived) → Providence (period at Brown University) → San Francisco (residence/visit)
経歴
- 職業
- Writer, Literary critic, Playwright, Screenwriter, Professor
- 活動期間
- 1955年〜2025年
- 所属
- University of Birmingham (Professor; Honorary Professor), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL), Harkness Fellow (period in the United States)
- 所属団体
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
- 影響を受けた人物
- Graham Greene, Malcolm Bradbury, Mikhail Bakhtin (theoretical influence)
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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)
期間:
〜1952
国:
United Kingdom
Secondary (Catholic school)
University College London (UCL)
Faculty of Arts
/ Department of English
学位:
Bachelor of Arts
期間:
1952–1955
卒業年:
1955
国:
United Kingdom
Graduated with first-class honours
University of Birmingham
Faculty of Arts
/ Department of English
学位:
PhD (English)
期間:
1959–1967（MA取得1959、PhD取得1967）
卒業年:
1967
国:
United Kingdom
MA thesis on 'The Catholic Novel from the Oxford Movement to the Present Day'; PhD awarded 1967
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
対象作品:
Changing Places
主催:
Hawthornden Prize committee
結果:
winner
Whitbread Book of the Year
1980
対象作品:
How Far Can You Go?
主催:
Whitbread (now Costa)
結果:
winner
Sunday Express Book of the Year
1988
対象作品:
Nice Work
主催:
Sunday Express
結果:
winner
Booker Prize
1984
対象作品:
Small World
主催:
The Booker Prize organization
結果:
shortlisted
Booker Prize
1988
対象作品:
Nice Work
主催:
The Booker Prize organization
結果:
shortlisted
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (regional)
1996
対象作品:
Therapy
部門:
Regional winner/finalist
主催:
Commonwealth Writers' Prize organization
結果:
regional winner/finalist
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
1976
主催:
Royal Society of Literature
結果:
elected
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1998
主催:
The Crown (New Year Honours)
結果:
appointed
Royal Television Society Award (Best Drama Serial)
1989
対象作品:
TV adaptation 'Nice Work' (adapted by Lodge)
主催:
Royal Television Society
結果:
winner
Monte-Carlo Television Festival – Silver Nymph
1990
対象作品:
TV adaptation 'Nice Work'
主催:
Monte-Carlo Television Festival
結果:
winner
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
The Picturegoers
1960年 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年 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年 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年 Novel (campus novel / satire)A modern Grail-quest set in the international academic circuit, following academics' adventures and rivalries.
ambition in academiaArthurian motifs
映像化・舞台化
- [Television series] Small World (TV) (1988)
Nice Work
1988年 Novel (business vs academia / satire)Contrasts industry and academia to satirize work, gender and social issues; adapted for television.
industry vs academiasocial critique
映像化・舞台化
- [Television series] Nice Work (TV) (1989)
Deaf Sentence
2008年 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
全著作
- 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)
翻案
- Small World (TV series, 1988)
- Nice Work (TV series, 1989)
- Martin Chuzzlewit (BBC series, 1994, adapted)
- The Writing Game (TV broadcast, 1995)
作風・主題
- 文体
- satirical and humoroustechnical, metafictional elementsclear narrative voice with theoretical insight
- 頻出モチーフ
- Catholicism and tensions around sexuality/moralitysatire of academia (campus novels)post-war England, memory, family
健康
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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.
評価・遺産
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.
関連学会
- Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
資料所蔵先
- Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham – Special Collections (David Lodge Papers)
引用
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“Each of my novels corresponds to a particular phase or aspect of my own life.”
出典: Interview excerpts / The Guardian et al. (2008年)
豆知識
- 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.