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Eric Linklater

Scottish fiction, history and travel writer (1899-1974) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 75

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.

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Carnegie Medal1944
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United Kingdom
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1899 to 1974 · aged 75

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