Henry Williamson

Henry Williamson (December 1, 1895 - August 13, 1977) - English writer-naturalist. He received the Gotorden Prize for Literature in 1928 for the book of an Otter named Tarka. Henry Williamson was born in Bromley, southeast London, and attended school at Colfe. As a child, he lived in a rural area in Kent and gained a deep love of nature. In January 1914, he joined the London Rifle Brigade, and after the outbreak of World War I he was announced that he would be mobilized on 5 August. After the call, he was sent to the machine gun corps, where he was appointed lieutenant, and since 1917, he was attached to the Bedfordshire regiment. After the war, he read Richard Jeffries’s book, The Story of My Heart, which inspired him to start writing seriously. In 1921, he moved to Devon and lived in a small cottage. In 1925, Williamson married Ida Hibbert, they had six children in a marriage. In 1927, Williamson published his most famous book, An Otter by the Name of Tark, which won the Hawthorne Prize. In 1935, Henry Williamson attended the National Socialist Congress in Nuremberg and was amazed, in particular, by the Hitler Youth movement, whose healthy outlook on life he compared to the sickly youth in the slums of London. He made the famous claim that Hitler was essentially a good person who only wanted to build a new and better one in Germany. " He subsequently joined the British Fascist Union of Oswald Mosley in 1937. In 1936, he bought a farm at Stiffy, Norfolk.