- Eric Linklater
Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 - 7 November 1974) was a British writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as
short stories , travel writing and autobiography, and military history.Life
He was born in
Penarth ,Vale of Glamorgan ,Wales , but was educated atAberdeen Grammar School andAberdeen University . He spent many years inOrkney , and identified strongly with the islands, where his father had been born. His mother was the daughter of a Swedish-born sea captainKeay, J. & Keay, J. (1994) "Collins Encyclopaedia of Scotland ". London. HarperCollins.] who had become a naturalized British citizen and married an Englishwoman. He thus had Scandinavian origins through both parents (the name Linklater is a local Orkney name derived from the Old Norse), and throughout life he maintained a sympathetic interest in Scandinavia.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 theNational Party of Scotland candidate.Family
Eric's elder son,
Magnus Linklater (born 1942) is a journalist and former editor of "The Scotsman ". His second son, Andro Linklater, is also a writer and journalist.Eric Linklater's daughter isKristin Linklater , the actor, voice teacher and author of "Freeing the Natural Voice".Locations
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Hill of Fearn Works
*"White Maa's Saga" (1929) - novel
*"The Devil's in the News" (1929) - play
*"Poet's Pub" (1929) - novel
*"A Dragon Laughed & other poems" (1930)
*"Juan in America" (1931)
*"The Men of Ness" (1932) - novel
*"Magnus Merriman" (1934)
*"Juan in China"
*"Ripeness is All" (1935)
*"The Impregnable Women" (1938) - novel
*"Judas " (1939) novel
*"The Man on My Back" (1941) autobiography
*"The Wind on the Moon" (1944) - children's novel
*"Private Angelo " (1946) - war satire. ISBN 0-907675-61-1
*"A Spell for Old Bones" (1949) - historical novel
*"The Pirates in the Deep Green Sea" (1949) - children's novel
*"Laxdale Hall" (1951)
*"Figures in a Landscape" (1952)
*"A Year of Space" (1953) travel
*"The Dark of Summer" (1956)World War II - novel featuring espionage in theFaroe Islands
*"A Sociable Plover and other Stories and Conceits" - (1957) stories
*"The Merry Muse" (1959)
*"A Man Over Forty" (1963) - novel
*"A Terrible Freedom" (1966) - novel
*"The Survival of Scotland" (1968) - history of Scotland's independence
*"The Campaign in Italy"
*"The Highland Division"
*"The Goose Girl and Other Stories"References
External links
* [http://www.slainte.org.uk/scotauth/linkldsw.htm Biography]
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