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Tom Sharpe

Wilt
3.95 avg rating — 14,200 ratings — published 1976 — 103 editions
Porterhouse Blue (Porterhouse Blue, #1)
3.82 avg rating — 4,773 ratings — published 1974 — 70 editions
Riotous Assembly
4.07 avg rating — 4,263 ratings — published 1971 — 61 editions
The Wilt Alternative
3.89 avg rating — 4,100 ratings — published 1979 — 53 editions
Blott on the Landscape
3.92 avg rating — 4,012 ratings — published 1975 — 55 editions
Indecent Exposure
4.12 avg rating — 3,002 ratings — published 1973 — 48 editions
Wilt On High
3.87 avg rating — 3,163 ratings — published 1984 — 60 editions
The Throwback
3.91 avg rating — 2,786 ratings — published 1978 — 52 editions
Ancestral Vices
3.88 avg rating — 2,629 ratings — published 1980 — 36 editions
Vintage Stuff
3.82 avg rating — 2,233 ratings — published 1982 — 36 editions
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Tom Sharpe: A Nazi father, beatings, sexual repression and a final idyll in Catalonia

In 2008, the year he turned 80, Tom Sharpe, one of the most famous satirists in British literature, received an offer for his autobiography that he could not refuse. “I’ll write it,” he told Montserrat Verdaguer, his future executor, in the Catalonian town of Llafranc on the Costa Brava. “A million pounds is a lot of money. I don’t give a damn about my father! He was a Nazi; I’m not,” he also told his sentimental partner. The writer had been taking notes for years and wondering if he should produce an account of his life, but he told himself repeatedly not to even consider it. He feared what would happen to him, his public image, and his work, if he ever did. Was a million pounds going to change any of that? No. Before long, he was telling Verdaguer the exact opposite, in a clear display of his ardently childish and impulsive character. “I can’t write my autobiography; my life has been awful [...] You will write my biography when I am dead. You’ll have a huge job, but you’ll make a fortune,” he

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Londres, Reino Unido, 1928 - Llafranc, Girona, España , 2013

Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He did his National Service in the Marines before going to South Africa in 1951, where he did social work before teaching in Natal. He had a photographic studio in Pietermaritzburg from 1957 until 1961 when he was deported. From 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. Tom Sharpe is the author of many bestselling novels. His Porterhouse Blue  and Blott on the Landscape were serialised on television and Wilt was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXXIIIème Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret. In 2010 he was awarded the first Premio BBK La Risa de Bilbao.

Carmen Balcells Literary Agency represents the author for Spanish language and Portuguese language (Portugal).

  • «Tom Sharpe goza de la merecida reputación de ser «el novelista más divertido de nuestros días»» The Times

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