Editing Lawrence Durrell (section)

===British Council work in Córdoba and Belgrade; teaching in Cyprus===
In 1947, Durrell was appointed director of the [[British Council]] Institute in Córdoba, [[Argentina]]. He served there for eighteen months, giving lectures on cultural topics.<ref>Interview with Marc Alyn, published in Paris in 1972, translated by Francine Barker in 1974; reprinted in Earl G. Ingersoll, ''Lawrence Durrell: Conversations'', Associated University Presses, 1998. {{ISBN|0-8386-3723-X}}. p. 138.</ref> He returned to London with Eve in the summer of 1948, around the time that Marshal [[Josip Broz Tito|Tito]] of Yugoslavia broke ties with [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]]'s [[Cominform]]. Durrell was posted by the British Council to [[Belgrade]], [[Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslavia]],<ref>Alyn, ''op. cit.'' Ingersoll, p. 139.</ref> and served there until 1952. This sojourn gave him material for his novel ''[[White Eagles over Serbia]]'' (1957).

In 1952, Eve had a nervous breakdown and was hospitalised in England. Durrell moved to [[Cyprus]] with their daughter Sappho Jane, buying a house and taking a position teaching English literature at the [[Pancyprian Gymnasium]] to support his writing. He next worked in [[public relations]] for the British government during the local agitation for [[Enosis|union with Greece]]. He wrote about his time in Cyprus in ''[[Bitter Lemons]]'', which won the Duff Cooper Prize in 1957. In 1954, he was selected as a Fellow of the [[Royal Society of Literature]]. Durrell left Cyprus in August 1956. Political agitation on the island and his British government position resulted in his becoming a target for assassination attempts.<ref name="Lillios2004"/>{{rp|27}}