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4 unusual facts about Eric Linklater


Eric Linklater

Their younger daughter, Kristin Linklater, is an actor, voice teacher and author of Freeing the Natural Voice, and their grandson by Kristin, Hamish Linklater, is also an actor.

Abandoning medical studies in Aberdeen, Linklater spent 1925–27 in Bombay, India as an assistant editor of The Times of India and then travelled extensively before returning to Aberdeen as an assistant to the professor of English and then spending 1928–30 as a Commonwealth fellow at Cornell and Berkeley.

Their elder son, Magnus Linklater (born 1942), is a journalist and former editor of The Scotsman and their second, Andro Linklater, was also a writer and journalist.

National Party of Scotland

Eric Linklater stood as an NPS candidate in the 1933 East Fife by-election, and Neil Gunn played a role in aiding the NPS amalgamation with the Scottish Party.


Neil M. Gunn

His writing brought him into contact with other writers associated with the budding Scottish Renaissance, such as Hugh MacDiarmid, James Bridie, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater, Edwin Muir, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and George Blake.


see also

Massacre of Glencoe

More recently Glencoe was the subject of Eric Linklater's 1957 story "The Masks of Purpose", and David Clement-Davies's "Fire Bringer", in which the region is called the "Valley Of Weeping".