Imatge de l'autor

Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010)

Autor/a de La solitud del corredor de fons

87+ obres 3,911 Membres 69 Ressenyes 9 preferits

Sobre l'autor

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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Alan Sillitoe

La solitud del corredor de fons (1959) 1,566 exemplars
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958) — Autor — 1,049 exemplars
The Ragman's Daughter (1963) 72 exemplars
Out of the Whirlpool (1987) 68 exemplars
A Start in Life (1970) 65 exemplars
The Widower's Son (1976) 61 exemplars
La Mort de William Posters (1965) 59 exemplars
The Storyteller (1977) 52 exemplars
Travels in Nihilon (1971) 50 exemplars
Key to the Door (1962) 48 exemplars
Raw Material (1972) 46 exemplars
The General (1962) 44 exemplars
Men, Women and Children (1973) 43 exemplars
Guzman, Go Home (1968) 40 exemplars
A Tree on Fire (1967) 33 exemplars
Birthday (2001) 31 exemplars
New and Collected Stories (2003) 30 exemplars
Life Without Armour (1995) 28 exemplars
The Lost Flying Boat (1983) 28 exemplars
The Broken Chariot (1998) 27 exemplars
The Flame of Life (1974) 27 exemplars
Her Victory (1982) 27 exemplars
Gadfly in Russia (2007) 24 exemplars
Alligator Playground (1997) 24 exemplars
Down from the Hill (1984) 20 exemplars
Collected Stories (1995) 20 exemplars
The German Numbers Woman (1999) 20 exemplars
The Open Door (1989) 20 exemplars
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner [1962 film] (2007) — Screenwriter — 17 exemplars
A Man of His Time (2004) 17 exemplars
A Sillitoe Selection (1968) 16 exemplars
Snowstop (1993) 15 exemplars
Life goes on (1985) 15 exemplars
Road to Volgograd (1964) 14 exemplars
Moggerhanger (2016) 12 exemplars
Modern Short Stories 2: 1940-1980 (1982) — Col·laborador — 12 exemplars
Last Loves (1990) 8 exemplars
The Saxon Shore Way (1983) 7 exemplars
Collected Poems (1993) 7 exemplars
Leonard's War: A Love Story (1991) 7 exemplars
Counterpoint (1968) 5 exemplars
Every Day of the Week (1987) 4 exemplars
Fußball. Erzählungen II. (1991) 4 exemplars
The Rats 3 exemplars
Tides and stone walls : poems (1986) 3 exemplars
A Flight of Arrows (2003) 3 exemplars
Mimic [short story] (1977) 3 exemplars
Storm : new poems (1974) 3 exemplars
Tublid naised : [jutustus] (1963) 2 exemplars
The Old Wives' Tale 1 exemplars
Marmalade Jim and the Fox (1985) 1 exemplars
The Far Side of the Street (1988) 1 exemplars
Her Victory, Part 1 of 2 (1985) 1 exemplars
The Match [short story] (1959) 1 exemplars
Nottinghamshire (1987) 1 exemplars
Sillitoe Alan 1 exemplars

Obres associades

Nosaltres (1921) — Pròleg, algunes edicions8,392 exemplars
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists (1914) — Introducció, algunes edicions1,595 exemplars
The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories (1989) — Col·laborador — 429 exemplars
Riceyman Steps (1923) — Introducció, algunes edicions241 exemplars
The Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998) — Col·laborador — 190 exemplars
Great Modern European Short Stories (1969) — Col·laborador — 112 exemplars
Point of Departure (1967) — Col·laborador — 46 exemplars
Granta 3: The End of the English Novel (1980) — Col·laborador — 41 exemplars
Great Tours and Detours: The Sophisticated Traveler Series (1985) — Col·laborador — 34 exemplars
The Lake of the Bees / A Quiet Musician (2003) — Pròleg, algunes edicions33 exemplars
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Short Stories: The Thoroughly Modern Collection (2008) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Modern Short Stories in English (Literature for Life) (1993) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Antaeus No. 21/22, Spring/Summer 1976 - Special Essay Issue (1976) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Stories of Horror and Suspense: An Anthology (1977) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Personal Choice (1977) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars

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Nom normalitzat
Sillitoe, Alan
Data de naixement
1928-03-24
Data de defunció
2010-04-25
Gènere
male
Nacionalitat
UK
Lloc de naixement
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Lloc de defunció
London, England, UK
Llocs de residència
Montpellier, France
Spain
Kent, England, UK
London, England, UK
Professions
factory worker
air traffic control assistant
novelist
short-story writer
poet
playwright
Relacions
Fainlight, Ruth (wife)
Organitzacions
Royal Air Force
Premis i honors
Honorary Freeman of Nottingham City (2008)
Biografia breu
[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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Nos presenta uno de sus típicos personajes, empeñado en luchar por salir de su miseria.
 
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Obres
87
També de
17
Membres
3,911
Popularitat
#6,470
Valoració
3.8
Ressenyes
69
ISBN
351
Llengües
15
Preferit
9

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