WRITER

Alan Sillitoe

1928 - 2010

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Sillitoe has received more than 329,487 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Sillitoe is the 3,034th most popular writer (down from 2,358th in 2019), the 2,214th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,819th in 2019) and the 255th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner
Anthology, Readers, Short Stories
A short story collection featuring, in the title story, one of Sillitoe’s very best. The story concerns a teenaged boy from a poor working class background who is sent to a borstal for robbery and takes up long-distance running as a way of temporarily escaping from both his present situation and his bleak future prospects. Seeing his natural ability the institution Governor enters him into a race against a top local school, expecting to reap the kudos from the boy’s performance. On the day however, the boy rebels against the way he is being used, thereby denying the Governor his reflected glory. Perhaps one of the most revered works of fiction in the twentieth-century, iThe Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner /iis a modern classic about integrity, courage, and bucking the system. Its title story recounts the story of a reform school cross-country runner who seizes the perfect opportunity to defy the authority that governs his life. It is a pure masterpiece. From there the collection expands even further from the touching ldquo;On Saturday Afternoonrdquo; to the rollicking ldquo;The Decline and Fall and Frankie Buller.rdquo; Beloved for its lean prose, unforgettable protagonists, and real-life wisdom,i The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner/i captured the voice of a generation, and its poignant and empowering life lessons will continue to captivate and entertain readers for generations to come.br#160;
1959
Key to the Door
Fiction in English, Fiction, Young men
1961
Saturday night and Sunday morning
Fiction in English
1961
The Ragman's Daughter
Fiction, Social life and customs, Short Stories
1963
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Working class, Young men, Fiction
1958
The loneliness of the long-distance runner
English Short stories, English language, Readers
From the author of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ come stories of hardship and hope in post-war Britain. The title story in this classic collection tells of Smith, a defiant young rebel, inhabiting the no-man's land of institutionalised Borstal. As his steady jog-trot rhythm transports him over an unrelenting, frost-bitten earth, he wonders why, for whom and for what he is running. A groundbreaking work, ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner’ captured the grim isolation of the working class in the English Midlands when it was first published in 1960s. But Sillitoe’s depiction of petty crime and deep-seated anger in industrial and desperate cities remains as potent today as it was almost half a century ago.
1959

Page views of Alan Sillitoes by language

Over the past year Alan Sillitoe has had the most page views in the with 37,104 views, followed by Japanese (4,854), and German (3,291). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ido (114.54%), Esperanto (65.32%), and Hungarian (62.85%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alan Sillitoe ranks 3,034 out of 7,302. Before him are Jens Baggesen, Nathan Birnbaum, Sumitranandan Pant, Prince Henri of Orléans, Henri Meilhac, and Miodrag Bulatović. After him are August Šenoa, Lars Saabye Christensen, Julius Pomponius Laetus, Heo Nanseolheon, Sergey Solovyov, and Francisco Balagtas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Alan Sillitoe ranks 249. Before him are Orson Bean, Hans Herrmann, Abdellatif Filali, Steingrímur Hermannsson, Nicolas Roeg, and Yevgeny Svetlanov. After him are Nils Christie, Alexander Gomelsky, Annie Cordy, Anthony Franciosa, Sohrab Sepehri, and Edgar Schein. Among people deceased in 2010, Alan Sillitoe ranks 153. Before him are Ernst von Glasersfeld, Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, Fud Leclerc, Rudolf Barshai, Steingrímur Hermannsson, and José Torres. After him are Eugène Terre'Blanche, Peter Steele, Vasco de Almeida e Costa, Werner Schroeter, Zoltán Varga, and Oswaldo López Arellano.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Sillitoe ranks 2,214 out of 8,785. Before him are Michael Jackson (1942), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), William Hartnell (1908), Charles Barry (1795), Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), and Cuthbert (635). After him are Charles Wesley (1707), Edith Tolkien (1889), Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon (1863), William Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst (1773), Steve McManaman (1972), and Roger Hunt (1938).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alan Sillitoe ranks 255. Before him are John Cleland (1709), Lytton Strachey (1880), Caroline Graham (1931), Michael Jackson (1942), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), and Prince Henri of Orléans (1867). After him are Hamnet Shakespeare (1585), Robert Fisk (1946), William Ernest Henley (1849), Jojo Moyes (1969), Ken Robinson (1950), and Robert Harris (1957).

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