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November 7 in Scottish History

Today in 1974 Eric Linklater, the novelist and playright, died.

Eric Robert Russell Linklater was a Scottish writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, travel writing and autobiography, and military history. He was born in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, but was educated in Aberdeen.

He was brought up principally in Orkney, and identified strongly with the islands. 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. Eric's son, Magnus Linklater (born 1942) is a journalist and former editor of the The Scotsman.