'Masterful': tributes paid to David Lodge after Campus Trilogy author dies at 89

The British author and critic David Lodge, best known for his Campus Trilogy of novels, has died aged 89.

- Ella Creamer

Lodge wrote more than two dozen novels and works of non-fiction, as well as television scripts and plays. He was shortlisted for the Booker prize twice, first for his 1984 novel Small World and then in 1988 for the novel Nice Work, which are the second and third installments of his celebrated Campus Trilogy.

He died peacefully with close family at his side, said his publishing house Vintage, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Lodge's "contribution to literary culture was immense, both in his criticism and through his masterful and iconic novels, which have already become classics", said his publisher Liz Foley.

Lodge was born on 28 January 1935, in Dulwich, south London, and grew up in Brockley, which he described as a "somewhat seedy, neglected bit of London". He attended school in Blackheath, where the headteacher encouraged him to go to university.