# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eric-linklater
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:37:53.251Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eric-linklater"
name: "Eric Linklater"
slug: "eric-linklater"
description: "Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE was a Welsh-born Scottish poet, fiction writer, military historian, and travel writer. For The Wind on the Moon, a children's fantasy novel, he won the 1944 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association for the year's best children's book by a British subject."
tagline: "Scottish fiction, history and travel writer (1899–1974)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1899-03-08"
deathDate: "1974-11-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.79756266666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0512933/"
    handle:    "nm0512933"
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    title: "Wikiquote"
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    title: "Eric Linklater"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump