Alan Sillitoe
Alan Sillitoe FRSL was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s. He disliked the label, as did most of the other writers to whom it was applied. He is best known for his debut novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.
Background
- Born in
- Nottingham
- Awards
- 🏆 Hawthornden Prize🏆 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
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Trending topics shown first"I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because …"
"Everybody thinks they'll never get married at your age. So did Jack, he told me. You think you can go on all your life being single, I remember he said, but you suddenly find out that you can't."
"Government wars aren't my wars; they've got nowt to do with me, because my own war's all that I'll ever be bothered about."
"Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion."
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1928
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Died
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