Eric Linklater
|birth_place =
Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
|death_date =
|death_place =
Aberdeen, Scotland
|education =
Aberdeen Grammar School,
University of Glamorgan
|occupation = Writer, poet
|genre = Military history, travel
|awards =
Carnegie Medal (1944)
|spouse =
|children = 4
}}
Eric Robert Russell Linklater CBE (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was 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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