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David sillitoe biography

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        1. Alan Sillitoe FRSL (4 March – 25 April ) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the s.
        2. The BBC's Arts Correspondent, David Sillito returns to his hometown as part of a BBC News week of reporting from Scarborough.
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        4. Alan Sillitoe rose from abject poverty to become one of our best novelists and Nottingham's most famous contemporary author.

          5. The BBC's Arts Correspondent, David Sillito returns to his hometown as part of a BBC News week of reporting from Scarborough....

          Alan Sillitoe

          English writer (1928–2010)

          Alan SillitoeFRSL (4 March 1928 – 25 April 2010)[1][2] 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.

          He is best known for his debut novelSaturday Night and Sunday Morning and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films.

          Biography

          Sillitoe was born in Nottingham to working-class parents, Christopher Sillitoe and Sabina (née Burton).

          Like Arthur Seaton, the anti-hero of his first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, his father worked at the Raleigh Bicycle Company's factory in the town.[2] His father was illiterate, violent,[6] and unsteady with his jobs, and the family was often on the brink of starvation.[2]

          Sillitoe left school at the age of 14, h