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Tom Sharpe was born in 1928 and educated at Lancing College and 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, and from 1963 to 1972 he was a lecturer in History at the Cambridge College of Arts and Technology. He is the author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Porterhouse Blue and Blott on the Landscape which were serialised on television, and Wilt which was made into a film. In 1986 he was awarded the XXIIIeme Grand Prix de l'Humour Noir Xavier Forneret and in 2010 he received the inaugural BBK La Risa de Bilbao Prize. He is married and divides his time between Cambridge, England and northern Spain.
There is almost no one funnier * Observer * He is funny, bitter, a danger to his public and should be applauded wildly by all right-thinking men and women * Listener * A major craftsman in the art of farce * Evening Standard * One of our best contemporary comic writers- very, very funny * Birmingham Evening Mail * Can a book be too funny? Tom Sharpe's [The Midden] might just be. Too much laughing is required... * New York Times *
