British author David Lodge has died at age 89. Lodge was twice shortlisted for the country’s leading literary prize. His family made a statement issued by his publisher Penguin Random House on Friday. Lodge’s family said they were “very proud” of the prolific writer. Lodge was probably best known for his two Booker Prize-nominated novels. They were 1984’s “Small World: An Academic Romance” and “Nice Works” four years later. The two novels followed on from 1975’s “Changing Places.” It was the first in a trilogy series about a fictional university. The trilogy was adapted successfully for television in the 1980s. Lodge also wrote memoirs and television scripts.
