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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
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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 ''A Time of Gifts'' (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Fermor's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constan ...
'' (1977).Smith, Helen
"Literary legend learning to type at 92"
'' The Guardian'' (2 March 2007).
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journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and
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".


Early life and education

Leigh Fermor was born in London, the son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor, a distinguished geologist, and Muriel Aeyleen (Eileen), daughter of Charles Taafe Ambler. Shortly after his birth, his mother and sister left to join his father in India, leaving the infant Patrick in England with a family in Northamptonshire: first in the village of Weedon, and later in nearby Dodford. He did not meet his parents or his sister again until he was four years old. As a child Leigh Fermor had problems with academic structure and limitations, and was sent to a school for "difficult" children. He was later expelled from The King's School, Canterbury after he was caught holding hands with a greengrocer's daughter. His last report from The King's School noted that the young Leigh Fermor was "a dangerous mixture of sophistication and recklessness". He continued learning by reading texts on Greek, Latin, Shakespeare and history, with the intention of entering the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Gradually he changed his mind, deciding to become an author instead, and in the summer of 1933 relocated to
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in London, living with a few friends. Soon, faced with the challenges of an author's life in London and rapidly draining finances, he decided to leave for Europe.


Early travels

At the age of 18 Leigh Fermor decided to walk the length of Europe from the
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to Constantinople ( Istanbul). He set off on 8 December 1933 with a few clothes, several letters of introduction, the ''
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'' and a Loeb volume of Horace's ''
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''. He slept in barns and shepherds' huts, but was also invited by gentry and aristocracy into the country houses of Central Europe. He experienced hospitality in many monasteries along the way. Two of his later travel books, ''
A Time of Gifts ''A Time of Gifts'' (1977) is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor. Published by John Murray when the author was 62, it is a memoir of the first part of Fermor's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constan ...
'' (1977) and ''
Between the Woods and the Water ''Between the Woods and the Water'' is a travel book by British author Patrick Leigh Fermor, the second in a series of three books narrating the author's journey on foot across Europe from the Hook of Holland to Constantinople in 1933/34. The f ...
'' (1986), cover this journey, but at the time of his death, a book on the final part of his journey remained unfinished. This was edited and assembled from Leigh Fermor's diary of the time and an early draft he wrote in the 1960s. It was published as '' The Broken Road'' by John Murray in September 2013. Leigh Fermor arrived in Istanbul on 1 January 1935, then continued to travel around Greece, spending a few weeks in Mount Athos. In March he was involved in the campaign of royalist forces in Macedonia against an attempted Republican revolt. In Athens he met Balasha Cantacuzène (''Bălaşa Cantacuzino''), a Romanian Phanariote noblewoman, with whom he fell in love. They shared an old watermill outside the city looking out towards
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, where she painted and he wrote. They moved on to Băleni, Galați, the Cantacuzène house in Moldavia, Romania, where he remained until the autumn of 1939. On learning that Britain had declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 Leigh Fermor immediately left Romania for home and enlisted in the army. He did not meet Cantacuzène again until 1965.


Second World War

As an officer cadet Leigh Fermor trained alongside Derek Bond and
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. He later joined the Irish Guards. His knowledge of modern Greek gained him a commission in the General List in August 1940 and became a liaison officer in Albania. He fought in
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and mainland Greece. During the German occupation, he returned to Crete three times, once by
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, and was among a small number of
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(SOE) officers posted to organise the island's resistance to the occupation. Disguised as a shepherd and nicknamed ''Michalis'' or ''Filedem'', he lived for over two years in the mountains. With Captain Bill Stanley Moss as his second in command, Leigh Fermor led the party that in 1944 captured and evacuated the German commander, Major General
Heinrich Kreipe Karl Heinrich Georg Ferdinand Kreipe (5 June 1895 – 14 June 1976) was a German career soldier who served in both World War I and World War II. While leading German forces in occupied Crete in April 1944, he was abducted by British SOE officers ...
. There is a memorial commemorating Kreipe's abduction near Archanes in Crete. Moss featured the events of the Cretan capture in his book ''
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''. (The 2014 edition contains an afterword on the context, written by Leigh Fermor in 2001.) It was adapted in a film by the same name, directed/produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger and released in 1957 with Leigh Fermor played by Dirk Bogarde. Leigh Fermor's own account ''Abducting A General – The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete'' appeared in October 2014.Patrick Leigh Fermor, ''Abducting a General'', John Murray, 2014. During periods of leave, Leigh Fermor spent time at Tara, a villa in
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rented by Moss, where the "rowdy household" of SOE officers was presided over by Countess Zofia (Sophie) Tarnowska.


Wartime honours

* Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) *The
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(DSO) *Honorary Citizen of
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, of
Kardamyli Kardamili ( el, Καρδαμύλη, variously transliterated as ''Kardamyle'', ''Cardamyle'', ''Kardhamili'', and ''Kardamyli'', and sometimes called "Skardamoula", especially on old maps) is a town by the sea thirty-five kilometers southeast of ...
and of
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After the war

In 1950 Leigh Fermor published his first book, ''The Traveller's Tree'', about his post-war travels in the
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. It won the Heinemann Foundation Prize for Literature and established his career. The reviewer in '' The Times Literary Supplement'' wrote: "Mr Leigh Fermor never loses sight of the fact, not always grasped by superficial visitors, that most of the problems of the West Indies are the direct legacy of the slave trade." It was quoted extensively in ''Live and Let Die'', by
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. He went on to write several other books of his journeys, including '' Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese'' and ''Roumeli,'' of his travels on mule and foot around remote parts of Greece. Leigh Fermor translated the manuscript ''
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'' written by
George Psychoundakis George Psychoundakis BEM ( el, Γεώργιος Ψυχουντάκης, 3 November 1920 – 29 January 2006) was a member of the Greek Resistance on Crete during the Second World War and after the war an author. Following the German invasion, ...
, a dispatch runner on Crete during the war, and helped Psychoundakis get his work published. Leigh Fermor also wrote a novel, ''The Violins of Saint-Jacques'', which was adapted as an opera by
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. His friend Lawrence Durrell recounts in his book ''
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'' (1957) how in 1955 during the
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, Leigh Fermor visited Durrell's villa in
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, Cyprus:
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bottle... I find the street completely filled with people listening in utter silence and darkness. Everyone seems struck dumb. 'What is it?' I say, catching sight of Frangos. 'Never have I heard of Englishmen singing Greek songs like this!' Their reverent amazement is touching; it is as if they want to embrace Paddy wherever he goes.


Later years

After living with her for many years, Leigh Fermor was married in 1968 to the Honourable Joan Elizabeth Rayner (née Eyres Monsell), daughter of
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. She accompanied him on many travels until her death in
Kardamyli Kardamili ( el, Καρδαμύλη, variously transliterated as ''Kardamyle'', ''Cardamyle'', ''Kardhamili'', and ''Kardamyli'', and sometimes called "Skardamoula", especially on old maps) is a town by the sea thirty-five kilometers southeast of ...
in June 2003, aged 91. They had no children. They lived part of the year in a house in an olive grove near Kardamyli in the Mani Peninsula, southern Peloponnese, and part of the year in Gloucestershire. In 2007, he said that, for the first time, he had decided to work using a typewriter, having written all his books longhand until then. Leigh Fermor opened his home in Kardamyli to the local villagers on his
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, which was 8 November, the feast of
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(he had assumed the name Michael while fighting with the Greek resistance). New Zealand writer Maggie Rainey-Smith (staying in the area while researching for her next book) joined in his saint's day celebration in November 2007, and after his death, posted some photographs of the event. The house at Kardamyli features in the 2013 film ''Before Midnight''. Leigh Fermor influenced a generation of British travel writers, including
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,
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,
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and
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.


Death and funeral

Leigh Fermor was noted for his strong physical constitution, even though he smoked 80 to 100 cigarettes a day. Although in his last years he suffered from tunnel vision and wore hearing aids, he remained physically fit up to his death and dined at table on the last evening of his life. For the last few months of his life Leigh Fermor suffered from a cancerous tumour, and in early June 2011 he underwent a tracheotomy in Greece. As death was close, according to local Greek friends, he expressed a wish to visit England to bid goodbye to his friends, and then return to die in Kardamyli, though it is also stated that he actually wished to die in England and be buried next to his wife. Leigh Fermor died in England aged 96, on 10 June 2011, the day after his return. His funeral was held at St Peter's Church,
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, Gloucestershire, on 16 June 2011. A Guard of Honour was provided by serving and former members of the Intelligence Corps, and a bugler from the Irish Guards sounded the
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and Reveille. He is buried next to his wife in the churchyard there. The Greek inscription is a quotation from
Cavafy Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Πέτρου Καβάφης ; April 29 (April 17, OS), 1863 – April 29, 1933), known, especially in English, as Constantine P. Cavafy and often published as C. P. Cavafy (), was a Gree ...
translatable as "In addition, he was that best of all things, Hellenic".


Awards and honours

*1950, Heinemann Foundation Prize for Literature for ''The Traveller's Tree'' *1978, WH Smith Literary Award for ''A Time of Gifts'' *1991, elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature *1991, awarded the title
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by the Royal Society of Literature *1995, ''
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,
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'' *February 2004, accepted the knighthood ( Knight Bachelor), which he had declined in 1991 *2004, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the
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*2007, the Greek government made him Commander of the Order of the Phoenix *His life and work were profiled by the travel writer
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in the documentary series ''
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'' (2008) on
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*A documentary film on the Cretan resistance '' The 11th Day'' (2003) contains extensive interview segments with Leigh Fermor recounting his service in the S.O.E. and his activities on Crete, including the capture of General Kreipe.


Legacy

A Patrick Leigh Fermor Society formed in 2014. The National Archives in London holds copies of Leigh Fermor's wartime dispatches from occupied Crete in file number HS 5/728. A repository of many of his letters, books, postcards and other miscellaneous writings can be found within the Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive at the
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, Edinburgh.


Works

Books * (1950) * (1953) *''
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'' (1957), with photographs by Joan Eyres Monsell. This was an early product of the
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, a company managed by Leigh Fermor's friend
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. In it he describes his experiences in several monasteries, and the profound effect the time spent there had on him. *'' Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese'' (1958) *''Roumeli: Travels in Northern Greece'' (1966) *'' A Time of Gifts – On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube'' (1977, published by John Murray) *'' Between the Woods and the Water – On Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland: the Middle Danube to the Iron Gates'' (1986) *''Three Letters from the Andes'' (1991) *''Words of Mercury'' (2003), edited by
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*Introduction to ''Into Colditz'' by Lt Colonel Miles Reid (Michael Russell Publishing Ltd, Wilton, 1983). The story of Reid's captivity in
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and eventual escape by faking illness so as to qualify for repatriation. Reid had served with Leigh Fermor in Greece and was captured there trying to defend the
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bridge in 1941. *Foreword of ''Albanian Assignment'' by Colonel
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(Chatto & Windus, London, 1984). The story of SOE in Albania, by a brother in arms of Leigh Fermor, who was later a
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agent. *''In Tearing Haste: Letters Between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2008), edited by Charlotte Mosley. (
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, the youngest of the six
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, was the wife of the 11th Duke of Devonshire). *'' The Broken Road – Travels from Bulgaria to Mount Athos'' (2013), edited by Artemis Cooper and Colin Thubron from PLF's unfinished manuscript of the third volume of his account of his walk across Europe in the 1930s. *''Abducting A General – The Kreipe Operation and SOE in Crete'' (2014) *''Dashing for the Post: the Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2017), edited by Adam Sisman *''More Dashing: Further Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2018), edited by Adam Sisman Translations *''No Innocent Abroad'' (published in United States as ''Forever Ulysses'') by C. P. Rodocanachi (1938) *''Julie de Carneilhan and Chance Acquaintances'' by
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(1952) *'' The Cretan Runner: His Story of the German Occupation'' by
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(1955) Screenplay *'' The Roots of Heaven'' (1958) adventure film, directed by John Huston Periodicals *"A Monastery", in '' The Cornhill Magazine'', London, no. 979, Summer 1949. *"From Solesmes to
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", in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', John Murray, London, no. 982, Spring 1950. *"Voodoo Rites in Haiti", in ''World Review'', London, October 1950. *"The Rock-Monasteries of Cappadocia", in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', London, no. 986, Spring 1951. *"The Monasteries of the Air", in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', London, no. 987, Summer 1951. *"The Entrance to Hades", in ''The Cornhill Magazine'', London, no. 1011, Spring 1957. *"Swish! Swish! Swish!",on the Mani olive harvest
originally written for the Greek edition of '' Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese'', first appeared in ''The London Review of Books'', London, Vol. 43, No. 15, 29 July 2021.


Books about Patrick and Joan Leigh Fermor

*Artemis Cooper: ''Patrick Leigh Fermor. An Adventure'' (2012) *Dolores Payás: ''Drink Time! In the Company of Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2014) * Helias Doundoulakis, Gabriella Gafni: ''My Unique Lifetime Association with Patrick Leigh Fermor'' (2015) *Simon Fenwick: ''Joan. The Remarkable Life of Joan Leigh Fermor'' (2017) *Michael O'Sullivan: ''Patrick Leigh Fermor, Noble Encounters between Budapest and Transylvania'' (2018)


See also

Others with or alongside the SOE in Crete: * Dennis Ciclitira *
Xan Fielding Alexander Wallace Fielding (26 November 1918 – 19 August 1991) was a British author, translator, journalist and traveller, who served as a Special Operations Executive (SOE) agent in Crete, France and the East Asia during World War II. The pu ...
* George Doundoulakis * Helias Doundoulakis * Kimonas Zografakis


References

Notes Further reading *Artemis Cooper,''Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure'' John Murray, 2012; ''
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'', 2013) *Dolores Payá
''Drink Time! (In the Company (En Compañía con) of Patrick Leigh Fermor)''
(Acantilado, 2013; Bene Factum Publishing 2014) *


External links

* *Andy Walker
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