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David Lodge, C.B.E. is one of the most successful and pre-eminent contemporary English novelists, critics and academics. His work in either fiction or literary criticism would be sufficient to earn him recognition and esteem. He has an enormous accumulation of awards and recognitions including: winner of The Hawthornden Prize, Whitbread Prize, Commonwealth Writers Prize, twice shortlisted for the Booker, winner of the Royal Television Society's Award. David Lodge is Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. His more recent works include Author, Author, a fictionalised account of the later life of Henry James and Deaf Sentence, a novel influenced by his own experience of deafness. Several of his novels, including Small World and Nice Work have been adapted for television and he has adapted his own and other literary works for broadcast. He helped establish the category of the novelist don and the genre of campus fiction. He is an accessible critic and his novels are vastly entertaining, acutely observed and invariably tinged with profundity.