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British novelist Alan Sillitoe dies at 82

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Alan Sillitoe, a British novelist whose works chronicled the bleak postwar realities for the country’s poor, died Sunday. He was 82.

Sillitoe, a leading member of the 1950s group of so-called angry young men of British fiction, was acclaimed for his uncompromising social criticism and depiction of domestic tensions -- often dubbed kitchen sink dramas.

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Sillitoe’s son, David, said his father had died at London’s Charing Cross Hospital, but gave no other details.

Sillitoe is best known for his 1958 book “Saturday Night and Sunday Morning” and 1959 short story “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.” Both were made into films.

We’ll have more later at latimes.com/obituaries.

-- Associated Press

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