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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 the [[apartheid]] regime (''Riotous Assembly'' and its sequel ''Indecent Exposure''), dumbed-down education (the Wilt series), English 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 associated with the social group held up for ridicule. Readers tend to find Sharpe's work either extremely offensive or outrageously funny.

Sharpe's bestselling books have been translated into many languages.

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