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John le Carré
Born David John Moore Cornwell
October 19, 1931 (1931-10-19) (age 76)
Poole, Dorset, England
Spouse Anne Martin (1954-1971)
Jane Eustace (1972-)

John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell (born October 19, 1931 in Poole, Dorset, England), an English writer of espionage novels. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Poole ( is a large coastal town and seaport in Dorset on the south coast of England Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A pseudonym is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name (see Alias) Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Poole ( is a large coastal town and seaport in Dorset on the south coast of England Dorset ( (or archaically, Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland The Genre of spy fiction —sometimes called political thriller or spy thriller or sometimes shortened simply to Spy-fi —arose before Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, Great Britain, for more than forty years. St Buryan ( Cornish: Eglosborrie) is a village and Civil parish in the Penwith district of Cornwall, United Kingdom. Cornwall ( Kernow ˈkɛɹnɔʊ is the most southwesterly county of England, on the Peninsula that lies to the west of the River Tamar See also Kingdom of Great Britain Great Britain (Breatainn Mhòr Prydain Fawr Breten Veur Graet Breetain is the larger of the two main islands

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Early life and career

The son of Richard Thomas Archibald Cornwell (1906–75) and Olive (Gassy) Cornwell, John le Carré was born on October 19, 1931. Events 202 BCE - The Battle of Zama results in the defeat of Carthage and Hannibal. Year 1931 ( MCMXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1931 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The actress Charlotte Cornwell is his sister. Charlotte Cornwell (born c 1949 is an actress and sister of spy novelist John Le Carré (David Cornwell He began his formal schooling at St. Andrew's preparatory school near Pangbourne, Berkshire, and continued at Sherborne School. Pangbourne is a large Village and Civil parish on the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire. Berkshire (ˈbɑːkʃə or /ˈbɑːkʃɪə/ say Baak-shuh/-sheer sometimes abbreviated to Berks) is a Home County in the South Sherborne School is a British Independent school for boys located in the town of Sherborne in north-west Dorset, England. From 1948–49, he studied foreign languages at the University of Berne, then studied at Lincoln College, Oxford. The University of Berne is a University in the Swiss capital of Berne. Lincoln College (in full The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford The University of Oxford (informally "Oxford University" or simply "Oxford" located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England is the He graduated with a B.A. in 1956. He then taught at Eton College for two years; le Carré left Eton in 1959 to spend the next five years working for the British Foreign Service. Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, commonly called the Foreign Office or the FCO, is the British government department responsible for promoting He initially served as the Second Secretary in the British Embassy in Bonn, but eventually was transferred to Hamburg for service as a political consul; ultimately, le Carré was recruited into MI6. Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia Hamburg (English, German: ˈhambʊɐk local pronunciation Low German / Low Saxon: Hamborg) is the second-largest city in Germany The Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS) colloquially known as MI6 is the United Kingdom 's external Intelligence agency. He wrote his first novel in 1961, while still a member of the service.

Le Carré's career as a secret agent was destroyed by Kim Philby, a British double agent, who blew the cover of dozens of British agents to the KGB, David Cornwell being among them. Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or HAR Philby ( OBE: 1946-1965 ( 1 January, 1912 – 11 May, 1988) A split album featuring performances by bands The KGB and Alien Spy that was produced in 1997 Being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information KGB ( Transliteration of "КГБ" is the Russian abbreviation of Committee for State Security ( Komityet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosty Years later, le Carré carefully depicted and analysed Philby's weakness and deceit in the guise of "Gerald", the mole hunted by George Smiley in the central novel of le Carré's work, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. George Smiley is a Fictional character created by John le Carré. Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a Spy novel by John le Carré, first published in 1974 Then followed the revelation that fictional spymaster George Smiley was modelled on former Lincoln College, Oxford rector Vivian H. H. Green. Lincoln College (in full The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford Vivian Hubert Howard Green ( 18 November 1915 &ndash 18 January 2005) was a Fellow and Rector of Lincoln College Oxford,

In 1954, he married Alison Ann Veronica Sharp; they had three sons, Simon, Stephen and Timothy. They divorced in 1971. In 1972, he married Valérie Jane Eustace, a book editor with Hodder & Stoughton; this marriage produced one son, Nicholas, who writes as the author Nick Harkaway. Hodder & Stoughton is a British publishing house now an Imprint of Hodder Headline. Nick Harkaway (born 1972 in Cornwall, England) is a Novelist and Screenwriter.

As an author

Nearly all of le Carré's novels fall in the spy-thriller genre, with a particular emphasis on the Cold War. Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the A notable exception is The Naïve and Sentimental Lover. The Naïve and Sentimental Lover is John le Carré 's first novel to avoid the subject of Espionage. This novel has autobiographical elements as it is based on the author's relationship with James and Susan Kennaway following the breakdown of le Carré's first marriage. An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write"

His first two novels, Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality, closely follow the mystery fiction approach, where the emphasis is on a complex riddle that hero George Smiley must solve. Call for the Dead is John le Carré 's first novel It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters A Murder of Quality is the second Novel by John le Carré. It follows George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters George Smiley is a Fictional character created by John le Carré. In later, longer works, such as The Honourable Schoolboy and The Night Manager, le Carré approaches his material more as novelist and less as a mystery writer, focusing on the in-depth development of his characters.

Le Carré's work is in many ways a critical and reasoned response to the lurid sensationalism of the James Bond genre of spy writing. James Bond 007 is a Fictional character created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve Novels and two Short story His heroes are three-dimensional, their engagement with the world more realistic, and their circumstances markedly unglamorous. There is little of the 'action thriller' in his stories, no high-tech gadgetry and only a limited degree of violence; the drama comes primarily in the intensive mental activity of his protagonists. The thriller is a broad Genre of Literature, Film, Gaming and Television. In some novels, such as A Small Town in Germany, almost the entire story unfolds in the form of dialogue between the major characters. A Small Town In Germany is an espionage thriller by John le Carré, set against a background of concern that former Nazis were returning to positions of power in West Germany Le Carré is widely hailed as writing some of the most literary and philosophically significant genre fiction of the 20th century.

His works also differ from the Bond books in that they are morally complex; there are constant reminders of the fallibility of western espionage systems and western countries in general, often with the implication that the Soviet bloc and the NATO bloc are essentially two sides of the same coin. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 During the Cold War, the term Communist Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were The North Atlantic Treaty The simplicity of the good-versus-SMERSH or SPECTRE world of Ian Fleming has no place in le Carré's work, where the spies seem to serve espionage more than any ideology. SMERSH (acronym of SMERt' SHpionam, Russ СМЕРть Шпионам Eng Death to Spies) were the counter-intelligence departments in A spectre or specter is a (usually terrifying phantom, Apparition, or Ghost, or an unreal appearance Ian Lancaster Fleming ( May 28, 1908 – August 12, 1964) was a British author, Journalist and Second World War Le Carré is more interested in the uncertainty inherent in spycraft—the most unimpeachable information from the enemy might always prove to be bait or a trap, a logic that tends to render the information obtained far less useful. In short, his books leave behind an unmistakable air of scepticism.

A Perfect Spy, le Carré's most autobiographical novel, deals with the author's peculiar relationship with his father. A Perfect Spy (1986 by John le Carré, is a novel about the mental and moral dissolution of a secret agent Lynndianne Beene, the author of a biography of le Carré, describes Richard Cornwell as 'an epic con man of little education, immense charm, extravagant tastes, but no social values' (John le Carré, p. 2). Beene quotes le Carré's reflection on the novel that 'writing A Perfect Spy is probably what a very wise shrink would have advised' (p 14).

Le Carre is also the author of The Unbearable Peace, a lengthy non-fiction account of Jean-Louis Jeanmaire. Jean-Louis Jeanmaire ( 25 March 1911 in Biel/Bienne - 29 January 1992) was a Brigadier in the Swiss army who [1]

Film and television

In 1965, Martin Ritt directed the first film adaptation of a John le Carré novel, The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, featuring Richard Burton as "Alec Leamas", the novel's protagonist. Martin Ritt ( March 2, 1914 &ndash December 8, 1990) was an American director, Actor, and Playwright The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963 by John le Carré is a Cold War spy novel famous for its intricate plot and its portrait of the West's espionage methods Richard Burton, CBE (10 November 1925 &ndash 5 August 1984 was a Welsh multiple award-winning Actor. In 1966, Sidney Lumet directed The Deadly Affair, a film of the novel Call for the Dead. Sidney Lumet (born June 25 1924) is an Academy Award -receiving American Film director, with over 50 Films to his name The Deadly Affair is a 1966 British espionage - Thriller film, based on the story Call for the Dead, by Call for the Dead is John le Carré 's first novel It introduces George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters In 1969, Frank Pierson directed the film of The Looking Glass War. Frank R Pierson (born 12 May 1925) is an American Screenwriter and Film director. The Looking Glass War (1965 by John le Carré is a spy novel about a British Intelligence agency known as 'The Department ' and its attempts to infiltrate

In 1979, the BBC adapted the first novel in the Quest for Karla trilogy, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, into a television miniseries featuring Alec Guinness as "George Smiley". Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is a Spy novel by John le Carré, first published in 1974 A miniseries (also mini-series) in a serial Storytelling medium is a production which tells a story in a pre-planned limited number of episodes Sir Alec Guinness, CH, CBE (2 April 1914 &ndash 5 August 2000 was an English Actor. In 1981, Guinness reprised "Smiley" in the BBC adaptation of Smiley's People, the trilogy's last novel. For the article by Neal Stephenson see Smiley's people (essay.

The trilogy's middle novel, The Honourable Schoolboy, a story about Jerry Westerby (Joss Ackland in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), was not adapted as BBC thought a production in South East Asia to be prohibitively expensive. The Honourable Schoolboy (1977 by John le Carré, is the second novel of the Karla Trilogy it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature

In 1984, Diane Keaton was The Little Drummer Girl. Diane Keaton (born Diane Hall on January 5 1946 is an Oscar -winning American film Actress, director and producer The Little Drummer Girl is a Spy novel by John le Carré, published in 1983. In 1987, A Perfect Spy was adapted to television miniseries. A Perfect Spy (1986 by John le Carré, is a novel about the mental and moral dissolution of a secret agent In 1990, Sean Connery was "Barley Blair" Fred Schepisi's film of The Russia House. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25 1930) is an Academy Award - Golden Globe - and BAFTA Award -winning Scottish Fred Schepisi AO (born December 26, 1939) is an award-winning Australian Film director and Scriptwriter. The Russia House is a Novel by John le Carré published in 1989 In 1991, A Murder of Quality was adapted by Gavin Millar for television. A Murder of Quality is the second Novel by John le Carré. It follows George Smiley, the most famous of le Carré's recurring characters Gavin Millar (born 11 January 1938 in Clydebank, Scotland) is a Scottish Film director. In 2001, former cinema James Bond Pierce Brosnan was the spy in The Tailor of Panama. Pierce Brendan Brosnan, OBE Honour and so holds an honorary OBE The Tailor of Panama is a 2001 Spy film made by Merlin Productions and Columbia Pictures. In 2005, the film of The Constant Gardener was released, based on the eponymous novel set in slums in Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. The Constant Gardener is a 2005 Drama film directed by Fernando Meirelles. A slum, as defined by the United Nations agency UN-HABITAT, is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing and squalor and lacking in tenure security Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya is the second largest Slum in Africa, the largest being Soweto in South Africa, and has a population Loiyangalani is a small town located on the southeastern coast of Lake Turkana in Kenya. The Republic of Kenya is a country in East Africa. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the north Somalia to the northeast Tanzania to the south The poverty so affected the film crew that they set up the Constant Gardener Trust to provide basic education to those villages. The Constant Gardener Trust was established in 2004 soon after the filming of The Constant Gardener near Nairobi, Kenya. John le Carré is a patron of the charity.

Politics and honours

Le Carré published an essay entitled "The United States has gone mad" in The Times in January 2003, protesting against the war in Iraq, saying: "How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger from Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, or the War in Iraq, is an ongoing Military campaign Osama bin Laden, with some spelling variations is the name used in English to refer to (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن born 10 March Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti ( Arabic: ar صدام حسين عبد المجيد التكريتي --> April 28 1937 &ndash December 30 " He has turned down a number of awards, including a knighthood. Knight is the English term for a social position originating in the Middle Ages. He is the author of a testimonial in The Future of the NHS (2006) (ISBN 1858113695) edited by Dr. The Future of the NHS is a book published by xpl Publishing in 2006 (ISBN 1-85811-369-5 Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. Michelle Tempest. Dr Michelle Tempest (born January 23 1976) is a British Psychiatrist and the editor of a book entitled The Future of the NHS

He has had a long-running feud with the author Salman Rushdie, arguing that the publication of Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, as an affront to Muslim sensibilities, predictably put Rushdie and other people connected with the publication in danger. Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie Kt (born 19 June 1947 is an Indian - British novelist and essayist The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie 's fourth Novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. Rushdie in turn accused le Carré of misunderstanding his work and siding with those who imposed a fatwa on him, forcing him into hiding. A fatwā (فتوى plural fatāwā فتاوى in the Islamic faith is a religious opinion on Islamic law issued by an

Bibliography

Novels

Non-fiction

Short stories

Omnibus

Screenplays

Executive producer

Actor

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See also

Further reading

Hindersmann, Jost. The right side lost, but the wrong side won: John le Carré's Spy Novels before and after the End of the Cold War. CLUES: A Journal of Detection 23. 4 (Summer 2005): 25-37

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NAME Carré, John le
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cornwell, David John Moore
SHORT DESCRIPTION Writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Poole, Dorset, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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