Patrick Leigh Fermor

The authorities additionally record the headings Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, Paddy Fermor and Patrick Leigh-Fermor. His recorded languages were English and Modern Greek.

He was the child of Lewis Leigh Fermor and Aileen Taaffe Ambler. He married Joan Leigh Fermor. Other recorded relations include Patrick Reade.

Patrick Leigh Fermor worked in travel literature.

He belonged to Royal Society of Literature and Special Operations Executive in Albania during World War II. He worked at Kardamyli.

Patrick Leigh Fermor received Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order, Ptolémée Prize, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres and Knight Bachelor.

26 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service and Open Library. Their recorded dates run from 1950 to 2004.

The Patrick Leigh Fermor Archive, held by National Library of Scotland. A Time of Gifts. Between the Woods and the Water. The Broken Road. A Time to Keep Silence. Mani: Travels in the Southern Peloponnese. The Violins of Saint-Jacques. Between the Woods and the Water on Foot to Constantinople from the Hook of Holland. The Seven Deadly Sins. A Time of Gifts / Between the Woods and the Water. Three letters from the Andes. Cretan Resistance 1941-1945. In Tearing Haste. The Traveller's Tree, dated 1950. Patrick Leigh Fermor Boxed Set. Loose As the Wind. Words of Mercury, dated 2003. Abducting a General. More Dashing. Dashing for the post. Patrick Leigh Fermor. George Psychoundakis. Roumeli, dated 2004. Vanishing Greece, dated 1995. Mani, dated 1958. More Tales from the Travellers.

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 1 named public collection.

National Library of Scotland: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

11 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Patrick Leigh Fermor, un philologue incorrigible, Viatica, 2023. Writing Under the Influence of Patrick Leigh Fermor, Viatica, 2023. Patrick Leigh Fermor, Paul Morand and Rumania, Viatica, 2023. « How vaguely and slowly nations float about » : Patrick Leigh Fermor et le tempo du récit de voyage, Viatica, 2023. La marche vers le neutre : Leigh Fermor et l’opération Kreipe, Viatica, 2023. « Was I really about to trudge through this almost mythical territory? »: Traversée des frontières et devenir-autre dans A Time of Gifts de Patrick Leigh Fermor, Viatica, 2023. Rudolf Fischer, Patrick Leigh Fermor, Letters from (and to) a Penitent Central European, Viatica, 2025. « Leave thy home, O youth, and seek out alien shores » : dépaysement et nostalgie dans A Time of Gifts de Patrick Leigh Fermor, Textures, 2023. Food and Dining in Sacheverell Sitwell’s Roumanian Journey, Journal of Humanistic and Social Studies, 2018. BOOK REVIEW: DAN HORAȚIU POPESCU, "LAYERS OF THE TEXT & CONTEXT: PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR & FRIENDS", ORADEA, EDITURA UNIVERSITĂŢII DIN ORADEA: PARTIUM, 2020, 258 P., Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Philologia, 2022. Patrick Leigh Fermor's Mountain Exploration in Mani and Roumeli: a Plea for a Nomadic Awareness, Caliban: French Journal of English Studies, 2018.

9 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive.

Mani (1958) — Internet Archive. The Traveller´s Tree (1950) — Internet Archive. A Time of Gifts (1977) — Internet Archive. Vanishing Greece (1994) — Internet Archive. Roumeli travels in northern Greece (2004) — Internet Archive. The Violins of Saint-Jacques (1953) — Internet Archive. between the woods and the water (1987) — Internet Archive. Three Letters from the Andes (2005) — Internet Archive. Time of Gifts (1999) — Internet Archive.

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 24 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

This article draws on 4 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 4 means 4 genuinely separate publishers of record. 15 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Patrick Leigh Fermor studied at The King's School Canterbury and St Piran's School. the recorded working language is English and Modern Greek.

The field of work recorded is travel literature.

Residence is recorded at Kardamyli. Membership is recorded of Royal Society of Literature and Special Operations Executive in Albania during World War II.

Distinctions recorded are Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order, Ptolémée Prize and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.