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Profile of Eric Linklater
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Eric Linklater |
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8th March 1899 |
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Penarth, Glamorgan, Wales, UK |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Eric Robert Russell Linklater (1899-November 7, 1974), was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, also short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history.
He was born in Penarth, Wales, but was educated in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was brought up principally in Orkney, and identified strongly with the islands.
He was initially a medical student and then went into journalism, becoming a full time writer in the 1930s.
He stood, unsuccessfully, in the East Fife by-election of 1933 as the National Party of Scotland candidate.
Works
- A Dragon Laughed & other poems (1930)
- Juan in America (1931)
- Magnus Merriman (1934)
- Juan in China
- A Spell for Old Bones (1949) historical novel
- Laxdale Hall (1951)
- Figures in a Landscape (1952)
- A Year of Space (1953) travel
- A Sociable Plover and other Stories and Conceits (1957) stories
- A Man Over Forty (1963) novel
- A Terrible Freedom (1966) novel
- The Campaign in Italy
- The Highland Division
- The Goose Girl and Other Stories
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