English satirical author Tom Sharpe, born in London in 1928, has died today at his home in Llafranc, on the Costa Brava in Catalonia, where he moved in 1995.
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| Tom Sharpe on Catalan TV in 2009 |
Specializing in humorous narrative, he is associated with the character of Henry Wilt, the anti-hero in his series of best-sellers, including his best known works Wilt, published in 1976, which was made into a film in 1989 and had various sequels like The Wilt Alternative (1979), Wilt On High (1984), Wilt in Triplicate (1996), Wilt in Nowhere (2004) and The Wilt Inheritance (2010).
He wrote The Midden in 1996, which was published earlier in Catalan, as L'ovella negra, than in English.
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