David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89

David Lodge, who was shortlisted for the Booker prize twice, died peacefully at home. Photograph: Murdo Macleod/the Guardian

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

Lodge wrote more than two dozen novels and works of nonfiction, 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 instalments of his celebrated Campus Trilogy.