"He was slightly put out to learn that Anita Brookner’s Hotel du Lac beat him to the Booker Prize in 1984 (his novel Small World was shortlisted) after one judge read the others a positive review of a Brookner novel that Lodge himself had written."
My tribute to the late, brilliant David Lodge:
thetimes.com
A tribute to David Lodge — ‘a great comic writer on sex and its complications’
The British novelist, famous for his campus trilogy, died this week aged 89. Here’s a guide to his finest work
