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Sillitoe, Alan
English novelist. One of the Angry Young Men of the 1950s, he wrote Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), about a working-class man in Nottingham; the character, Arthur Seaton, returned in Birthday (2001). The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is the title story of a collection of short stories published in 1959.
Born in Nottingham, Sillitoe travelled in France, Spain, and Italy between 1952 and 1958. He published several collections of verse, including Rats and Other Poems (1960), Sun Before Departure: Poems 1974 to 1982 (1984), and Selected Poems (1993), but is most widely acclaimed for his novels and stories about working-class life.
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