Tom Sharpe
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Thomas Ridley Sharpe (30 March 1928 – June 2013,) was an English satirical novelist best known for his Wilt series, as well as Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape, which were both adapted for television.
Life
Sharpe was born in Holloway, London, and grew up in Croydon. Sharpe's father, Reverend George Coverdale Sharpe, was a Unitarian minister who was active in far-right politics in the 1930s. He was chairman of The Link's Acton and Ealing branches, as well as a Nordic League member. "In the sense that he looped all injustice," he said. Sharpe began to offer some of his father's opinions, but after seeing films of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, he was horrified.
Sharpe attended Bloxham School, where he based Groxbourne in Vintage Stuff, which was followed by Lancing College. He served National Service in the Royal Marines before being accepted to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied history and social anthropology.
Sharpe moved to South Africa in 1951, where he worked as a social worker and a scholar. When they collapsed over a woman, he was friendly with activist and painter Harold Strachan. Sharpe's stay in South Africa inspired his books Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure, in which he mocked the apartheid regime. The South African was also a play that was critical of the regime. Sharpe was arrested for sedition in 1961 and barred from South Africa after it was staged in London.
Sharpe began lecturing at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology, later Anglia Ruskin University. Wilt's collection, in which he debunks common English culture, inspired him. He and his American wife, Nancy, split their time between Cambridge and their house in Llafranc, Spain, where he wrote Wilt in Nowhere from 1995 to 2009. The couple had three children. Despite living in Catalonia, he did not know whether Spanish or Catalan. "I don't want to learn the words," he said, "I don't want to know what the meat cost is."
Sharpe died in Llafranc on June 6, 2013 from diabetes complications at the age of 85. He was believed to have been working on an autobiography. He had also suffered a stroke a few weeks earlier, according to the journal. "The Tom Sharpe I knew was generous, acerbic, entertaining, and full of wicked fun," Robert McCrum wrote. Susan Sandon, Sharpe's editor, remarked that he was "witty, often absurd, and always funny about life's absurdities." His ashes were laid to rest in the graveyard at Thockrington's Northumberland church, where his father had been a preacher.