SILLITOE & FAINLIGHT A COUPLE OF WRITERS London, 2001 In march 2001 I was in London to manage my writer's portrait exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute directed by Mario Fortunato. Mr. Fortunato suggested me to portray the famous couple of writers Fainlight and Sillitoe, and introduced me to them. So I had the occasion to take pictures in the intimacy of their home while working or reading, in a friendly atmosphere. Ruth Fainlight (New York, 1931) is a U.S.-born poet, short story writer, translator and librettist based in the UK. She has twice been Poet in Residence at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, and was a close friend of Sylvia Plath in the years leading up to Plath's death. Alan Sillitoe (Nottingham 1928 - London 2010) was an English writer and one of the so-called "angry young men" of the 1950s (but he disliked the label). He is best known for his debut novel "Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" and his early short story "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner", both of which were adapted into films. In the 1960s Sillitoe was celebrated in the Soviet Union as a spokesman for the "oppressed worker" in the West. Invited to tour the country, he visited several times in the 1960s and in 1968 he was asked to address the Congress of Soviet Writers' Unions, where he denounced Soviet human rights abuses, many of which he had witnessed. 1 Biography