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British writer John le Carré died Saturday night at the age of 89. Le Carré, a pseudonym for David JM Cornwell, was best known for his spy novels set during the Cold War. News of his death on Sunday was his agent Jonny Geller, who said le Carré died at the Royal Cornwall Hospital in Cornwall after a brief illness unrelated to the coronavirus.
It is with great sadness that I must announce the passing of one of the world’s great writers: John le Carré.https: //t.co/hpPFA5nA6D pic.twitter.com/HbC3WZzQFF
– Jonny Geller (@JonnyGeller) December 13, 2020
Le Carré was born in Poole, England, in 1931. In 1948 he enrolled at the University of Bern, Switzerland, then returned to England, at Oxford, and graduated in 1956 in German literature from Lincoln College. For the next two years he taught at the prestigious Eton College and in 1959 he became an official in the British Foreign Office. Later he was recruited by the secret services (MI6).
Le Carré was inspired by his direct experience as a secret agent to create the character of George Smiley, the protagonist of many of his novels, beginning with the first in 1961. Call the dead. Two years later, in 1963, he published The spy who came from the cold, the novel that made him famous internationally. Among his other best-known novels are The mole (1974), The honorable schoolboy (1977), All Smiley Men (1980), The house of Russia (1989) and, among the most recent, A past as a spy (2018) e The spy who runs in the field (2019).
Numerous films have been made based on novels by John le Carré. The first was The spy who came from the cold 1965, directed by Martin Ritte and starring Richard Burton in the title role, Alec Leamas. In 1966 Sidney Lumet directed the adaptation of Call the dead and in 1969 Frank Pierson of The mirror of spies, with Anthony Hopkins. In 1984, Diane Keaton played The tambourine, directed by George Roy Hill, and in 1990 Sean Connery starred in The house of Russia, adapted by Fred Schepisi with Michelle Pfeiffer.
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