Eric Linklater

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 at Aberdeen Grammar School and Aberdeen University. He spent many years in Orkney, 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 the National 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 is Kristin Linklater, the actor, voice teacher and author of "Freeing the Natural Voice".

Locations

*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 the Faroe 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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