Eric Linklater

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Scottish fiction, history and travel writer (1899-1974)

United Kingdom WritersLived 1899 to 1974 · aged 75

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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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Memorial to Eric Linklater in St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, Orkney

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1944Carnegie Medal

Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh

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SpouseMarjorie Linklater

ChildKristin Linklater

ChildMagnus Linklater

ChildAndro Linklater

ChildAlison Linklater

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Sebastian ShawAlso in Laxdale Hall (1953)

Joyce GrenfellAlso in Poet's Pub (1949)

Moyna MacgillAlso in Private Angelo (1949)

Alfred ShaughnessyAlso in Laxdale Hall (1953)

Prunella ScalesAlso in Laxdale Hall (1953)

Barbara MurrayAlso in Poet's Pub (1949)

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