Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010)
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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
The Rats 3 exemplars
A falling out of love, and other poems 2 exemplars
On Saturday Afternoon [short story] 2 exemplars
The Fishing-Boat Picture 2 exemplars
The Old Wives' Tale 1 exemplars
Guzman, go home, and other stories 1 exemplars
The Collected Novels Volume One: Her Victory, The Widower's Son, and Travels in Nihilon (2018) 1 exemplars
The Disgrace of Jim Scarfedale [short story] 1 exemplars
Enoch's Two Letters [short story] 1 exemplars
Without beer or bread 1 exemplars
Noah's Ark [short story] 1 exemplars
Mr. Raynor, the School-Teacher [short story] 1 exemplars
Uncle Ernest [short story] 1 exemplars
Sillitoe Alan 1 exemplars
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning 1 exemplars
Obres associades
For the Love of Books: 115 Celebrated Writers on the Books They Love Most (1999) — Col·laborador — 451 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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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 87
- També de
- 17
- Membres
- 3,911
- Popularitat
- #6,470
- Valoració
- 3.8
- Ressenyes
- 69
- ISBN
- 351
- Llengües
- 15
- Preferit
- 9