Eric Linklater

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

Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBEwas 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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Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBEwas 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.