PRISON CAMP AUTHOR WINS "ATLANTIC PRIZE"
A 27-year-old R.A.F. pilot wlio started writiug his lirst hook 011 the back of cigarette packets in a German prison canip is oue of the 10 young Brilish writers wlio receive £300 Atlantic " awards from the Rockefeller Trust. The awards are intended lo enable tlicin to devote all their time to writiug for a year. Fliglit Lieuteinuit Robert . Kee, history graduate from Oxford University, began to mahe rough liotes aliouL prison canip iife soon after he was skol down in 1942. When ofticers from Stalag Luft 11J were force-marched through tlie snow aeross Germany in the winter of 19-15, Kee took his notes witk liim,. leaving precious food beliind to carry theni. When he came home, he sat down at his typevvriter and wrote from tlie notesthe book which has earned hini recognition as a writer of tlie future. Fliglit Lieutenant Aidan Crawley. the Kent and- Oxford cricketer, wlio is . now Labour M.P. for Buckinghani, first discovered Kee 's talent as a writer while running a camp magazine.
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Chronicle (Levin), 30 September 1946, Page 6
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