Henry Williamson
English novelist and nature writer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history, ruralism and the First World War. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter.
Henry Williamson | |
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Born | (1895-12-01)1 December 1895 Brockley, London, England |
Died | 13 August 1977(1977-08-13) (aged 81) Twyford Abbey, London, England |
Nationality | English |
Known for | Nature writing (Tarka the Otter), Ruralist books |
He was born in London, and brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and nature writing. He fought in the First World War and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. He moved to Devon after the Second World War and took up farming and writing; he wrote many other novels. He married twice. He died in a hospice in Ealing in 1977, and was buried in North Devon.