{"id":506,"date":"2018-02-14T13:18:36","date_gmt":"2018-02-14T11:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundaciotomsharpe.org\/?page_id=506"},"modified":"2026-04-02T11:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:00:02","slug":"the-foundation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fundaciotomsharpe.org\/en\/the-foundation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fundacio\">\n<p class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-8 text-lafundacio\">The Tom Sharpe Foundation is a non-profit organisation that aims to foster the study and promotion of this writer\u2019s literary work, both in Catalonia and abroad. The Foundation is governed by its statutes and by the provisions established by the board of trustees. The Tom Sharpe Foundation receives support from the Town Hall of Palafrugell and the Diputaci\u00f3 de Girona.<\/p>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-8 responsable president\">\n<div class=\"border-left bloc-persona\">\n<h3 class=\"carrec\">President<\/h3>\n<p>\n                Montserrat Verdaguer Clavera<br \/>\n                <button id=\"president\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Montserrat Verdaguer Clavera<\/span><\/button>\n            <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                Degree in Medicine and Surgery, University of Barcelona, 1977. Neurologist, University of Barcelona, 1982. Psychiatrist, San Juan de Dios Hospital Barcelona, 1986. Executor of the Tom Sharpe legacy.\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-8 responsable vicepresident\">\n<div class=\"border-left bloc-persona\">\n<h3 class=\"carrec\">Vice President<\/h3>\n<p>\n                Jos\u00e9 Maria P\u00e9rez-Collados<br \/>\n                <button id=\"vicepresident\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Jos\u00e9 Maria P\u00e9rez-Collados<\/span><\/button>\n            <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                Chair in History of Law, University of Girona Before this he was a researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and several universities in Chile, the University of Zaragoza, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Birmingham. Author: he has written various works on political history, including \u201cLos discursos pol\u00edticos del M\u00e9xico originario\u201d (The political discourses of early Mexico), poetry \u201cLo que no te cont\u00e9 de mis viajes\u201d (What I didn\u2019t tell you about my travels), novels, \u201cEl Tren de Cristal\u201d (The glass train) and \u201cAhora que ya no est\u00e1s\u201d (Now you are not here). He edits the legal culture journal \u201cIus Fugit\u201d, is managing editor of the publisher \u201cNuevos Rumbos\u201d, director of editorial policy for the \u201cNetwork of Reading Universities\u201d which brings together over 50 universities from Spain, Italy, Russia, Portugal and various countries in the Americas and of the \u201cNovela de Campus\u201d (Campus novel) collection of the Renacimiento publishing house.\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-8 responsable secretari\">\n<div class=\"border-left bloc-persona\">\n<h3 class=\"carrec\">Secretary<\/h3>\n<p>\n                Josep Maria Prat S\u00e0bat<br \/>\n                <button id=\"secretari\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Josep Maria Prat S\u00e0bat<\/span><\/button>\n            <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                Lawyer. Previously: Secretary of the Provincial Chamber of Agriculture of Girona. Dean of the Association of Lawyers of Girona from 1995 to 2005. Member of the Council of the Associations of Lawyers of Catalonia. Member of the Social Council of the University of Girona. Member of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers. President of the Girona regional section of the Compulsory Purchase Panel of Catalonia. He holds the Cross of Honour of Sant Raimundo de Penyafort 2002. He is currently a trustee of the Foundation of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers. He is a member of various national and international jurists\u2019 associations.\n            <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-8 responsable rep-aj-palafrugell\">\n<div class=\"border-left bloc-persona\">\n<h3 class=\"carrec\">Representative of Ajuntament de Palafrugell<\/h3>\n<p>\n                Juli Fern\u00e1ndez Iruela<br \/>\n                <button id=\"rep-aj-palafrugell\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Juli Fern\u00e1ndez Iruela<\/span><\/button>\n            <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-md-8 responsable vocals\">\n<div class=\"border-left\">\n<h3 class=\"carrec\">Members<\/h3>\n<div class=\"bloc-persona\">\n<p>\n                    Anna Caball\u00e9 Masforroll<br \/>\n                    <button id=\"vocal-1\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Anna Caball\u00e9 Masforroll<\/span><\/button>\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                    Lecturer in Spanish Literature at the University of Barcelona. Head of the Biography Studies Unit, Department of Hispanic Philology, University of Barcelona. Tinker Visiting Professor 2016, University of Chicago. President of \u201cClassics and Modern Association\u201d. Gaziel Biography and Memoir Prize 2009: \u201cCarmen Laforet, una mujer en fuga\u201d (Carmen Laforet: A woman in flight). Manuel Alvar Humanities Prize 2015: \u201cPas\u00e9 la ma\u00f1ana escribiendo. Po\u00e9ticas del diarismo espa\u00f1ol\u201d (I spent the morning writing: The poetics of Spanish diarism). Author, her most significant works include \u201cFrancisco Umbral, el fr\u00edo de una vida\u201d (Francisco Umbral: The cold of a life), \u201cCinco conversaciones con Carlos Castilla del Pino\u201d (Five conversations with Carlos Castilla del Pino), \u201cUna breve historia de la misoginia\u201d (A short history of misogyny), \u201cEl bolso de Ana Karenina\u201d (Anna Karenina\u2019s bag), \u201cSobre la vida y obra de Paulino Masip\u201d (The life and work of Paulino Masip), \u201cEl feminismo en Espa\u00f1a\u201d (Feminism in Spain), \u201cLa vida escrita por las mujeres\u201d (Life written by women), \u201cConcepci\u00f3n Arenal, la caminante y su sombra\u201d.\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bloc-persona\">\n<p>\n                    Carme Fenoll Clarabuch<br \/>\n                    <button id=\"vocal-2\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Carme Fenoll Clarabuch<\/span><\/button>\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                    Diploma in Library Sciences and Documentation from the University of Barcelona. Degree in Documentation from the Open University of Catalonia. Head of the Vice Chancellor\u2019s Office, Polytechnic University of Catalonia. Former director of Palafrugell library. Former director of the Libraries Service of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat of Catalonia.\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bloc-persona\">\n<p>\n                    Xavier Rocas Guti\u00e9rrez<br \/>\n                    <button id=\"vocal-3\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Xavier Rocas Guti\u00e9rrez<\/span><\/button>\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                    Archaeologist and museologist. Director of the Terracotta Ceramics Museum in La Bisbal d\u2019Empord\u00e1. Council Member for Culture at Palafrugell Council from 2003 to 2015. Author of the books \u201cEnrajolats. La Bisbal 1839\u20131980\u201d (Tiled floors: La Bisbal 1839\u20131980) and \u201cCer\u00e0mica i arquitectura. Els Coromina, Rafael Mas\u00f3 i la g\u00e8nesi de La Gabarra\u201d (Ceramics and architecture: The Corominas, Rafael Mas\u00f3 and the genesis of La Gabarra) as well as over a hundred specialist articles.\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bloc-persona\">\n<p>\n                    Isabel Verdaguer Clavera<br \/>\n                    <button id=\"vocal-4\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Isabel Verdaguer Clavera<\/span><\/button>\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                    Chair in English Philology, University of Barcelona. Head of the Department of English and German Philology at the University of Barcelona from 2009 to 2013. Co-author of the books \u201cDe Cl\u00e1sicos y Traducciones\u201d (Of classics and translations) and \u201cBiomedical English: A corpus-based study\u201d and author of numerous book chapters and specialist articles. Diploma in Linguistics from the University of Reading, visiting researcher at the University of Birmingham, the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Gothenburg and Simon Fraser University. PhD Coordinator (2014\u20132017) and member of the Senate of the University of Barcelona.\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bloc-persona\">\n<p>\n                    Xavier Pla i Barbero<br \/>\n                    <button id=\"vocal-5\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Xavier Pla i Barbero<\/span><\/button>\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                    Doctor of Catalan Philology. Professor of Catalan Literature and Literature Theory in Girona University. Doctor of Letters by Universit\u00e9 de Paris-Sorbonne. Chief Executive \u201cChair Josep Pla\u201d and member of the Foundation Josep Pla. Cheif Executive \u201cChair Tom Sharpe\u201d and member of the Foundation Tom Sharpe. Literary Prize winner \u201cCritica Serra d\u2019Or\u201d for the literary work \u201cJosep Pla: ficci\u00f3 autobiogr\u00e0fica i veritat liter\u00e0ria\u201d in 1998. Literary Prize winner \u201cJoan Fuster d\u2019assaig\u201d for the literary work \u201cSimenon i la connexi\u00f3 catalana\u201d in 2006. Winner of \u201cPremi Nacional de Cultura\u201d in 2015.\n                <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bloc-persona\">\n<p>\n                    Miquel Berga i Bagu\u00e9<br \/>\n                    <button id=\"vocal-6\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about Miquel Berga i Bagu\u00e9<\/span><\/button>\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                    Writer and journalist. Honorary Professor of English Literature at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Pompeu Fabra University, and a specialist in research on English language and literature, with a particular focus on George Orwell.<\/p>\n<p>                    Among his published works are: &#8220;Entre la ploma i el fusell&#8221;, &#8220;Mil nou-cents vuitanta-quatre: radiografia d\u2019un malson&#8221;, &#8220;John Langdon-Davies: 1987-1971: una biografia anglo-catalana&#8221;, &#8220;Un hotel a la costa&#8221;, &#8220;Llegir Orwell avui&#8221;, &#8220;Un aire angl\u00e8s&#8221;, and &#8220;Un pa\u00eds estranger&#8221;.\n                <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"bloc-persona\">\n<p>\n                    M\u00e0rius Serra i Roig<br \/>\n                    <button id=\"vocal-7\" class=\"btn-mes-info\" aria-expanded=\"false\"><span class=\"text-mes-info\" aria-hidden=\"true\">+<\/span><span class=\"sr-only\"> More information about M\u00e0rius Serra i Roig<\/span><\/button>\n                <\/p>\n<div class=\"mes-info\" style=\"display: none;\">\n                    Writer of novels, essays, children&#8217;s literature, ludolinguistics, and theater, and a translator. He holds a degree in English Philology from the University of Barcelona, is the President of the Advisory Linguistic Council of the Catalan Audiovisual Media Corporation, and a Full Member of the Philological Section of the Institute of Catalan Studies.<\/p>\n<p>                    Awards: Ciudad de Elche (1986), El Brot (1987), Ciudad de Barcelona de literatura en lengua catalana (1999), Octavi Pellisa (1999), Cr\u00edtica Serra d&#8217;Or de estudio literario (2001), Letra de Oro (2001), Ramon Llull de novela (2006), Cr\u00edtica Teatral de Barcelona (2007), Memorial Llu\u00eds Companys de la Fundaci\u00f3n Josep Irla (2011), Sant Jordi de novela (2012).\n                <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tom Sharpe Foundation is a non-profit organisation that aims to foster the study and promotion of this writer\u2019s literary work, both in Catalonia and abroad. 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