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Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. [3] [4] [5] He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied.
Alan Sillitoe (born March 4, 1928, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England—died April 25, 2010, London) was a writer, one of the so-called Angry Young Men, whose brash and angry accounts of working-class life injected new vigour into post-World War II British fiction.
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Apr 25, 2010 · Writer Alan Sillitoe, a leading figure of the so-called angry young men of British fiction and author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, has died at age 82.
Apr 27, 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, one of the so-called angry young men of British fiction in the 1950s, wrote 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' and 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.'
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is the first novel by British author Alan Sillitoe and won the Author's Club First Novel Award. It was adapted by Sillitoe into the 1960 film of the same name starring Albert Finney , directed by Karel Reisz , and in 1964 was adapted by David Brett as a play for the Nottingham Playhouse , with Ian McKellen ...
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Apr 25, 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, who died today aged 82, was part of a generation of working-class writers who shifted the boundaries of taste. Not that Sillitoe, born into the deprived family of a tannery...
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Apr 26, 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, a British writer whose two early works a novel, “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning,” and a short story, “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner” drew attention to the...
