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Tom Sharpe
'''Tom Sharpe''' (born [[March 30]], [[1928]]) is an [[England|English]] [[satire|satirical]] [[author]], born in [[London]] and educated at [[Lancing College]] and at [[Pembroke College, Cambridge]]. After [[National Service]] he moved to [[South Africa]] in [[1951]], doing social work and teaching in [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], until [[deportation|deported]] in [[1961]].

His work in South Africa inspired the [[novel]]s ''Riotous Assembly'' and ''Indecent Exposure''. From [[1963]] until [[1972]] he was a History lecturer at the [[Cambridge College of Arts and Technology]], which inspired his "Wilt" series ''[[Wilt_(novel)|Wilt]]'', ''The Wilt Alternative'', ''Wilt on High'' and ''Wilt in Nowhere''.

His novels feature bitter and outrageous satire of, ''inter alia'', the [[apartheid]] regime (''Riotous Assembly'' and its sequel ''Indecent Exposure''), dumbed-down education (the Wilt trilogy), BritEnglish class snobbery (''Ancestral Vices'', ''[[Porterhouse Blue]]''), the literary world (''The Great Pursuit''), political extremists of all stripes, [[political correctness]], [[bureaucracy]] and stupidity in general. Characters may indulge in bizarre sexual practices, and coarser characters use very graphic and/or profane language in dialogue. In more printable passages, Sharpe often parodies the language and style of specific authors commonly ass(contracted; show full)[[Category:English novelists|Sharpe, Tom]]
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