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Reuters Suzanne Plunkett
The family of the famous British writer John Le Carré, known for his spy novels, confirmed that he passed away at the age of 90.
And the writer’s family announced in a statement issued this Sunday that he had died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in England, after suffering from pneumonia, while Curtis Brown, the literary agency, indicated that the writer’s death had nothing to do with the Corona virus pandemic.
Le Carré (whose real name is David John Moore Cornwell) was born in England in 1931.
The future writer began studying foreign languages at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in the late 1940s, graduating from Oxford University in 1954, and during this period began to collaborate informally with intelligence by spying on students from left.
Le Carre worked for a period between 1956-1958 as a French and German language teacher at Eton College.
In 1958, Le Carré joined MI5, and the following year he moved to MI6, where he served for five years as a secret agent with diplomatic cover in West Germany.
The writer published his first novel “A Call to the Dead” in 1961 under the pseudonym John Le Carre, who had been using it for years during his intelligence work.
Le Carré left government service after the success of his third novel, “The Spy Who Came from the Cold” (1963), in which he benefited from his experience for intelligence work in Germany.
Le Carré wrote 22 novels during his lifetime, including “Plumber, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” (1974) and “The Savior Gardener” (2001) and others, which have been translated into 36 languages.
In his famous novels, Le Carre sheds light on the reality of the routine work of intelligence men away from exciting adventures.
Le Carré won many literary awards, and in 2008 the “Times” newspaper ranked him 22nd on the list of the most prominent British writers after World War II.
Source: Guardian + RT
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