Awards and Legacy
- 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
- 1995, Chevalier, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- February 2004, accepted the knighthood (Knight Bachelor) which he had declined in 1991.
- 2004, awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the British Guild of Travel Writers.
- 2007, the Greek government made him Commander of the Order of the Phoenix.
- His life and work were profiled by the travel writer Benedict Allen in the documentary series Travellers' Century (2008) on BBC Four.
- A documentary film on the Cretan resistance The 11th Day (2003) contains extensive interview segments with Leigh Fermor in which he recounted his service in the S.O.E. and his activities on Crete, including the capture of General Kreipe.
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