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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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Learn about the life and works of Alan Sillitoe, a prolific and influential British writer of novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction. Explore his themes of working-class life, rebellion, travel and autobiography.
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With his short-fiction collection The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner (1959), Alan Sillitoe (SIHL-ih-toh) reinforced the critical acclaim and popular recognition earned by his...
Apr 25, 2010 · Alan Sillitoe was an English writer, one of the "Angry Young Men" of the 1950s (although he, in common with most of the other writers to whom the label was applied, had never welcomed it). For more see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Sil...
Apr 30, 2010 · Alan Sillitoe, the novelist and poet whose death at the age of 82 was announced on Sunday, was one of the key cultural figures in Britain’s startling postwar social transformation.
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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...
