Prof David Lodge, CBE

Career: Nat Serv RAC 1955-57; asst British Cncl Overseas Students Centre London 1959-60; Dept of English Univ of Birmingham: asst lectr 1960-62, lectr 1961-71, sr lectr 1971-73, reader in English literature 1973-76, prof of modern English literature 1976-87, hon prof of modern English literature 1987-2000, emeritus prof of English literature 2001-; visiting assoc prof Univ of Calif Berkeley 1969, Henfield fell in creative writing UEA 1977, Whitney J Oates short term visiting fell Princeton Univ 1981, E J Pratt lectr Meml Univ of St John's Newfoundland 1985, Lansdowne scholar Univ of Victoria BC 1986, Regents lectr Univ of Calif Riverside 1989; chm Booker Prize Judges 1989; hon fell: UCL 1982, Goldsmiths Coll London 1992; Hon DLitt Univ of Warwick 1997, Hon DLitt Univ of Birmingham 2001; FRSL 1976; Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 1997

Books and Publications: Novels The Picturegoers (1960), Ginger You're Barmy (1962), The British Museum is Falling Down (1965), Out of the Shelter (1970), Changing Places: a Tale of Two Campuses (1975), How Far Can You Go (1980), Small World: an academic romance (1984), Nice Work (1988), Paradise News (1991), Therapy (1995), Home Truths: a novella (1999), Thinks... (2001), Author, Author (2004), Deaf Sentence (2008), A Man of Parts (2011); Non-fiction incl: Language of Fiction (1966), The Novelist at the Crossroads (1971), The Modes of Modern Writing (1977), Working With Structuralism (1981), Write On (1986), After Bakhtin (1990), The Art of Fiction (1992), The Practice of Writing (1996), Consciousness and the Novel (2002), The Year of Henry James (2006); Stage and Screen Between These Four Walls (with M Bradbury and J Duckett, 1963), Slap in the Middle (with M Bradbury, J Duckett and D Turner, 1965), Big Words - Small Worlds (Channel 4, 1987), Nice Work (BBC2, 1989, Silver Nymph Award), The Writing Game (Birmingham Rep 1990, adapted for Channel 4 1995), The Way of St James (BBC1, 1993), Martin Chuzzlewit (adapted from Charles Dickens' novel, BBC2, 1994), Home Truths (Birmingham Rep, 1998)