Tom Sharp English satirist writer. Date of Birth: 30.03.1928 Country: Great Britain

1. Biography of Tom Sharpe
2. Bibliography

Biography of Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe was an English satirical writer born on March 30, 1928, in London. He attended Pembroke College, Cambridge and in 1951, he was enlisted in the army and served in the Royal Marines, where he was stationed in South Africa. After his military service, Tom Sharpe remained in South Africa, working in social welfare and teaching in Natal, but was deported in 1961. His time in South Africa inspired his novels Riotous Assembly (1971) and Indecent Exposure (1973).

From 1963 to 1972, Tom Sharpe taught history at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, which influenced his series of novels about Wilt - Wilt (1976), The Wilt Alternative (1979), Wilt on High (1985), and Wilt in Nowhere (2004). Sharpe's novels are bitter satires on apartheid (Riotous Assembly, Indecent Exposure), the British education system (the Wilt series), snobbery (Ancestral Vices, Porterhouse Blue, Grantchester Grind), the literary world (The Great Pursuit), political extremism, political correctness, bureaucracy, and general foolishness. He often parodies the language and style of other authors.

Tom Sharpe's books have been translated into many languages, including Russian. Since 1995, he has resided in Lafranca, a small town in Costa Brava.

Bibliography

• Riotous Assembly (1971)
• Indecent Exposure (1973)
• Porterhouse Blue (1974)
• Blott on the Landscape (1975)
• Wilt (1976)
• The Great Pursuit (1977)
• The Throwback (1978)
• The Wilt Alternative (1979)
• Ancestral Vices (1980)
• Vintage Stuff (1983)
• Wilt on High (1985)
• Grantchester Grind (1995)
• The Midden (1996)
• Wilt in Nowhere (2004)

The novel Blott on the Landscape was adapted into a six-episode series by the BBC in 1985, starring Geraldine James, George Cole, and David Suchet. The screenplay was written by Malcolm Bradbury. Malcolm Bradbury also wrote the screenplay for the four-part film adaptation of Porterhouse Blue, starring David Jason, Ian Richardson, and Griff Rhys Jones.

The film "Wilt," based on the screenplay by Andrew Marshall and David Renwick, starring Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, Alison Steadman, and Diana Quick, was released in 1989.