Biography
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (11 February 1915 – 10 June 2011) was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1915-02-11
Deathday2011-06-10 (96 years old)
Birth PlaceLondon, United Kingdom
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SpouseJoan Leigh Fermor
FatherLewis Leigh Fermor
MotherAileen Taaffe Ambler
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesKardamyli, Greece
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Bachelor, Distinguished Service Order, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Ptolémée Prize, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
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