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John le Carré
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 is 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]
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His works
Novels
- Call for the Dead (1961), ISBN 0-143-12257-6
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- A Murder of Quality (1962), ISBN 0-141-19637-8
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- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), ISBN 0-143-12475-7
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- The Looking Glass War (1965), ISBN 0-143-12259-2
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- A Small Town in Germany (1968), ISBN 0-143-12260-6
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- The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971), ISBN 0-143-11975-3
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- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), ISBN 0-143-12093-X
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- The Honourable Schoolboy (1977), ISBN 0-143-11973-7
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- Smiley's People (1979), ISBN 0-340-99439-8
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- The Little Drummer Girl (1983), ISBN 0-143-11974-5
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- A Perfect Spy (1986), ISBN 0-143-11976-1
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- The Russia House (1989), ISBN 0-743-46466-4
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- The Secret Pilgrim (1990), ISBN 0-345-50442-9
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- The Night Manager (1993), ISBN 0-345-38576-4
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- Our Game (1995), ISBN 0-345-40000-3
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- The Tailor of Panama (1996), ISBN 0-345-42043-8
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- Single & Single (1999), ISBN 0-743-45806-0
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- The Constant Gardener (2001), ISBN 0-743-28720-7
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- Absolute Friends (2003), ISBN 0-670-04489-X
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- The Mission Song (2006), ISBN 0-340-92199-4
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- A Most Wanted Man (2008), ISBN 1-416-59609-7
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- Our Kind of Traitor (2010), ISBN 0-143-11972-9
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- A Delicate Truth (2013), ISBN 0-143-12531-1
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- A Legacy of Spies (2017), ISBN 978-0-735-22511-4[3]
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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
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- 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
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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
- ↑ "John le Carré, author of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, dies aged 89" (in en). the Guardian. 13 December 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/dec/13/john-le-carre-author-of-tinker-tailor-soldier-spy-dies-aged-89. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ↑ "John le Carré: Cold War novelist dies aged 89" (in en-GB). BBC News. 13 December 2020. https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55297558. Retrieved 13 December 2020.
- ↑ Kean, Danuta (7 March 2017). "George Smiley to return in new John le Carré novel, A Legacy of Spies". https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/george-smiley-to-return-new-john-le-carre-novel-a-legacy-of-spies.
- ↑ Robert McCrum (9 March 2014). "A Spy Among Friends Review: Kim Philby's Treacherous Friendship with Nicholas Elliot". The Observer. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/mar/09/spy-among-friends-kim-philby-ben-macintyre-review. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
- ↑ Penguin Random House to Publish John le Carré’s Memoir in September 2016, Le Carré Productions, 9 October 2015, http://www.johnlecarre.com/news/2015/10/09/penguin-random-house-to-publish-john-le-carre-s-memoir-in-september-2016, retrieved 21 February 2016
