Alan Sillitoe
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Letters: Édouard Louis | Plastics | Child refugees | Trump’s presidency | The La Scala | Weetabix jingle
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Patrick Knowles swaggers as the misogynistic, womanising factory hand at the centre of this adaptation of Alan Sillitoe's 1958 novel, writes Lyn Gardner
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Nosheen Iqbal: This return to the angry young men of British drama's new wave pulled out all the stops
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John McKeane: Alan Sillitoe's 1959 story about rebellion won't be new to you, but the pleasure it takes in describing the 'barmy runner-brain' makes it a classic
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Cloughie, caves, a castle, plus DH Lawrence, Lord Byron and Alan Sillitoe ... Nottingham remains a cultural touchstone
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Noël Coward's Private Lives springs to fabulously sexy life while Racine's classic is lost in translation, writes Kate Kellaway
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Roy Williams's masterful adaptation keeps the action in a contemporary frame of reference – the London 2011 riots, writes Alfred Hickling
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Chaucer's Canterbury, Emily Brontë's moors, Graham Greene's Brighton, Kureishi's suburbia … The British Library's new exhibition explores how literature has responded to the varying landscapes of these islands. By Blake Morrison
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A revival of Alan Sillitoe's tale of young men with a taste for drinking, fighting and fornication shows lad culture is nothing new, writes Alfred Hickling
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Letters: Alan Sillitoe shows how such destructive acts might feel empowering to a disaffected young man in an unjust world
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How did Dirk Bogarde get from Doctor in the House to The Night Porter? With a wilful desire to destroy his matinee idol status. And the signs were there for all to see in his early work, says Matthew Sweet
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Angry young northerners
Andrew MartinAndrew Martin: The 60s began in Billy Liar's Bradford – but that cultural insurgency now seems a long time ago
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Letters: The censor ensured the film of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning told a far more conventional story
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Alan Sillitoe was one of the stars of the Angry Young Men, but resisted classification throughout his prolific career. With his death last week, a strand of late 20th-century literature has come to an end, writes DJ Taylor
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Author of Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner gave a voice to those who challenged a deferential Britain
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Review: The Life of a Long-Distance Writer by Richard Bradford
The enigmatic Alan Sillitoe remains just that in a life that has been carefully airbrushed, says James Purdon
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Editorial: Sillitoe is loved for being the awkward sod who writes about other awkward sods
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Review: Saturday Night & Sunday Morning by Alan Sillitoe
A powerful story of political awakening
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It's 50 years since Alan Sillitoe published his ground-breaking Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
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At 80, the restless writer Alan Sillitoe has found a new challenge - teaching at Ruskin College. By John Crace
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This production of Sillitoe's novel has the urgency of a pub crawl as last orders draw near, says Alfred Hickling
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At 80, Alan Sillitoe is still the angriest Angry Young Man around
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Rereading: In the 1950s, Alan Sillitoe shattered the sentimental portrayal of working-class life in literature and was responsible for a new realism in British fiction. DJ Taylor salutes the author on his 80th birthday
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We moved to this flat in 1971 when Notting Hill Gate was a bit run down and full of bedsitters. Now prices have rocketed, but we like it and won't move. The desk was a dining-room table, which is spacious and what a writer wants. The typewriter might not be a word processor, but it can erase, which is all I need. I've written in my diary every day for the past 10 years
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DJ Taylor salutes the undiminished energy of Alan Sillitoe's A Man of His Time
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When Alan Sillitoe's RAF career was cut short by TB he settled in Mallorca on a military pension. There Robert Graves advised him to write about his background. His first novel, drawing on his experiences as a Nottingham factory worker, was a groundbreaking success. Now 76, he continues to produce novels that reflect his uncompromising independence.
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