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Also Known As David John Lodge
Born January 28, 1935 • London • England
Died January 1, 2025 (aged 89) • Birmingham • England
Awards And Honors Costa Book Awards (1980)
Notable Works “A Man of Parts” • “Author, Author” • “Ginger, You’re Barmy” • “How Far Can You Go?” • “Lives in Writing” • “Nice Work” • “Out of the Shelter” • “Quite a Good Time to Be Born” • “The British Museum Is Falling Down” • “The Picturegoers” • “Writer’s Luck”
Sir Stephen Spender
English poet
Michael Frayn
British author and translator
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
British writer
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
English writer
George Orwell
George Orwell
British author
Graham Greene
Graham Greene
British author
Chesterton, G.K.
G.K. Chesterton
British author
V.S. Pritchett
British writer
Robin Maugham
British author
Maurice Baring
British author
Salman Rushdie, 2008
Salman Rushdie
British-American writer
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
British author
Jeanette Winterson
British author
Alasdair Gray
Scottish novelist, playwright, and artist
Vladimir Nabokov
Vladimir Nabokov
American author
Mario Vargas Llosa
Mario Vargas Llosa
Peruvian author
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
Ngugi wa Thiong’o
Kenyan writer
Joyce Carol Oates
Joyce Carol Oates
American author
Behan
Brendan Behan
Irish author
Suzanne Lilar
Belgian author