London - The novelist Malcolm Bradbury died yesterday. In 1959 he wrote his first campus novel, Eating People is Wrong. Since then he has written six novels, including Stepping Westwards, The History Man, Doctor Criminale, Jacques The Fatalist, Rates of Exchange and To the Hermitage, and several television adaptations including The Gravy Train.
He set up a creative writing MA course at the University of East Anglia in 1970, to give apprentices a home in a traditional academic environment. Among his students were the author Ian McEwan and Kazuo Ishiguro, who wrote The Remains of the Day.
