Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010)
Author of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
About the Author
Alan Sillitoe was born on March 4, 1928 and grew up in the slums of the industrial city of Nottingham. He began to write while in the Royal Air Force, stationed in Malaya. He is best known for Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), which won the Author's Club Prize for the best British novel of show more 1958 and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959), which won Britain's Hawthornden Prize for 1960. Both books were adapted into films in 1960 and 1962 respectively. His other works include The Death of William Posters (1965), Tree on Fire (1967), Travels in Nihilon (1971), and Raw Material (1972). He died on April 25, 2010 at the age of 82. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Alan Sillitoe
The Rats 3 copies
The Fishing-Boat Picture 2 copies
On Saturday Afternoon [short story] 2 copies
The Collected Novels Volume One: Her Victory, The Widower's Son, and Travels in Nihilon (2018) 1 copy
The Old Wives' Tale 1 copy
Sillitoe Alan 1 copy
Uncle Ernest [short story] 1 copy
Noah's Ark [short story] 1 copy
Without beer or bread 1 copy
Associated Works
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) — Introduction, some editions — 1,641 copies, 41 reviews
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Contributor — 458 copies, 3 reviews
Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (1985) — Contributor — 34 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Sillitoe, Alan
- Birthdate
- 1928-03-24
- Date of death
- 2010-04-25
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Montpellier, France
Spain
Kent, England, UK
London, England, UK - Occupations
- factory worker
air traffic control assistant
novelist
short-story writer
poet
playwright - Relationships
- Fainlight, Ruth (wife)
- Organizations
- Royal Air Force
- Awards and honors
- Honorary Freeman of Nottingham City (2008)
- Short biography
- [from jacket of We]
Novelist and playwright Alan Sillitoe has produced many celebrated novels and short stories including Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, both of which were written in Spain and became widely acclaimed.
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La soledad del corredor de fondo by Allan Sillitoe
Uno de los relatos fundamentales de los "angry young men" de esa generación literaria, con un protagonista dispuesto a enfrentarse a todo y a todos y que elige un camino de rebelión (Que se intuye fallida, pero queda un poco a la interpretación del lector)
Gritty short stories of post war east Midlands. Each one gets in to the head of characters you often never read about. The long distance runner is in Borstal and the prison hopes he will make them proud by winning an inter-borstal race. In other stories there is football, chip shops, rows of terraces and the fair.
3.5. Interesting autofiction about living in the cracks and crevices of capitalism.
Squalid without being sensationalized. Charming and melancholy. It's hard being a human, but failure isn't as dramatic as all that.
First story is the British cousin of Catcher in the Rye, a bit.
Some of these are very slice of life, which is fine.
I first heard of this from Iron Maiden.
First story is the British cousin of Catcher in the Rye, a bit.
Some of these are very slice of life, which is fine.
I first heard of this from Iron Maiden.
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- Works
- 82
- Also by
- 19
- Members
- 3,979
- Popularity
- #6,340
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 74
- ISBNs
- 350
- Languages
- 15
- Favorited
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