John le Carré

Le Carré in 2008

John le Carré (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020) was an English novelist. He was born in Poole, Dorset. He wrote many spy novels. The name is a pseudonym. His real name was David John Moore Cornwell.

Le Carré graduated from Lincoln College, Oxford with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

Le Carré died from pneumonia at Royal Cornwall Hospital in Truro, England on 12 December 2020, at age 89.[1][2]

His works

Novels

  • Call for the Dead (1961), ISBN 0-143-12257-6
  • A Murder of Quality (1962), ISBN 0-141-19637-8
  • The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), ISBN 0-143-12475-7
  • The Looking Glass War (1965), ISBN 0-143-12259-2
  • A Small Town in Germany (1968), ISBN 0-143-12260-6
  • The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971), ISBN 0-143-11975-3
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), ISBN 0-143-12093-X
  • The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), ISBN 0-143-11973-7
  • Smiley's People (1979), ISBN 0-340-99439-8
  • The Little Drummer Girl (1983), ISBN 0-143-11974-5
  • A Perfect Spy (1986), ISBN 0-143-11976-1
  • The Russia House (1989), ISBN 0-743-46466-4
  • The Secret Pilgrim (1990), ISBN 0-345-50442-9
  • The Night Manager (1993), ISBN 0-345-38576-4
  • Our Game (1995), ISBN 0-345-40000-3
  • The Tailor of Panama (1996), ISBN 0-345-42043-8
  • Single & Single (1999), ISBN 0-743-45806-0
  • The Constant Gardener (2001), ISBN 0-743-28720-7
  • Absolute Friends (2003), ISBN 0-670-04489-X
  • The Mission Song (2006), ISBN 0-340-92199-4
  • A Most Wanted Man (2008), ISBN 1-416-59609-7
  • Our Kind of Traitor (2010), ISBN 0-143-11972-9
  • A Delicate Truth (2013), ISBN 0-143-12531-1
  • A Legacy of Spies (2017), ISBN 978-0-735-22511-4[3]

Non-fiction

  • The Good Soldier (1991), collected in Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace
  • The United States Has Gone Mad (2003), collected in Not One More Death (2006), ISBN 1-844-67116-X
  • Afterword (2014), an essay on Kim Philby, published in A Spy Among Friends by Ben Macintyre[4]
  • The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life (2016)[5]

Short stories

  • "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn?" (1967), in The Saturday Evening Post, 28 January 1967.
  • "What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight?" (1968), in the Saturday Evening Post, 2 November 1968.
  • "The Writer and The Horse" (1968), in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later The Argosy (and The Saturday Review under the title A Writer and A Gentleman).
  • "The King Who Never Spoke" (2009), in Ox-Tales: Fire, 2 July 2009.

Omnibus

  • The Incongruous Spy (1964), containing Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality
  • The Quest for Karla (1982), containing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People (republished in 1995 as Smiley Versus Karla in the UK; and John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels in the U.S.), ISBN 0-394-52848-4

Screenplays

  • End of the Line (1970), broadcast 29 June 1970
  • A Murder of Quality (1991)
  • The Tailor of Panama (2001), with John Boorman and Andrew Davies

Executive producer

  • The Tailor of Panama (2001)
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
  • A Most Wanted Man (2014)
  • The Night Manager (2016)
  • Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

Actor

  • The Little Drummer Girl (1984), as David Cornwell
  • Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), as John le Carré
  • A Most Wanted Man (2014)
  • Our Kind of Traitor (2016)
  • The Night Manager (2016), as David Cornwell

References

  1. ↑ "John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89". the Guardian. 13 December 2020. Archived from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  2. ↑ "John le Carré: Cold War novelist dies aged 89". BBC News. 13 December 2020. Archived from the original on 13 December 2020. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
  3. ↑ Kean, Danuta (7 March 2017). "George Smiley to return in new John le Carré novel, A Legacy of Spies" – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ↑ Robert McCrum (9 March 2014). "A Spy Among Friends Review: Kim Philby's Treacherous Friendship with Nicholas Elliot". The Observer. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  5. ↑ Penguin Random House to Publish John le Carré's Memoir in September 2016, Le Carré Productions, 9 October 2015, archived from the original on 2 March 2016, retrieved 21 February 2016

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