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Eric Linklater

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Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE RSE (8 Mairch 1899 – 7 November 1974) wis a Welsh-born Scots screiver o fiction an short stories, militar history, an traivel beuks, and wis kent as a 'man o letters'.[1][2] He wis awardid the 'Carnegie Medal' for his childer's buikThe Wind on the Moon'.[3]

He wis electit for East Fife as a memmer o the National Pairty o Scotland in 1933.[3]

References

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  1. "Eric Linklater, man of letters". The Herald. 8 November 1974. p. 15. Retrieved 14 Apryle 2018.
  2. Parnell, Michael (1984). Eric Linklater: a critical biography. London: J. Murray. ISBN 978-0-7195-4109-4.
  3. 1 2 "Linklater, Eric Robert Russell (1899–1974)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 6 Februar 2018, retrieved 14 November 2025