biography
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Lodge, David (John)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1935– )
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| biography:
| Novelist and critic, born in London, UK. He studied at University College London, then taught at Birmingham University (1960–87, then honorary professor). Three early realist novels gave place to parodic fictions in pursuit of literature itself, including Changing Places (1975) and Small World (1984, televised 1988). The real world returns in Nice Work (1988, televised 1989), a rewrite of the 19th-c industrial novel. Later books include Paradise News (1991), Therapy (1995), Home Truths (a novella, 1999), and Thinks (2001). His critical works include Language of Fiction (1966), The Novelist at the Crossroads (1971), Write On (1986), a collection of essays, After Bakhtin (1990), and The Practice of Writing (1996). |
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