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OverviewAI-generated
Alan Sillitoe (1928–2010) was a British writer, screenwriter, poet, and novelist. Born in Nottingham, he began his work period in 1958 and wrote in English. He was a member of the Royal Society of Literature and received the Hawthornden Prize. Sillitoe was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. His notable works include *Saturday Night and Sunday Morning*, *Poems for Shakespeare*, *7*, *Masaʻot be-Nihilon*, *Guzman*, *Go Home and other stories*, and *The Death of William Posters*.
Sillitoe died in London of cancer from natural causes. He is buried at Highgate Cemetery.
Synthesized by Vinony from 34 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 99
Top works
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
- Poems for Shakespeare, 7
- Masaʻot be-Nihilon
- Guzman, Go Home and other stories
- The Death of William Posters
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing
Known for
- Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties — Self1993
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 28
- Total plays
- 84
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alan+Sillitoe">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,826x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,148x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,854x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,612x
- DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs
· 2018 · cited 18,243x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “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.”
- “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 of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.”
- “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.”
- “Whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not.”
- “You can always rely on a society of equals taking it out on the women.”
- “Few writers who have managed to acquire his reputation can have been so much at the mercy of crude emotion.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1928-03-04 ) 4 March 1928, Nottingham , England
- Died
- 25 April 2010 (2010-04-25) (aged 82), London, England
- Occupation
- Writer
- Notable works
- Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958); , " The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner " (1959)
- Spouse
- Ruth Fainlight
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
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. 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.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alan Sillitoe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.