[ad_1]
John Le Carrè, the British master of spy novels, has died. His agent announced it. “It is with great sadness that I have to announce that David Cornwell, known to the world as John Le Carrè, died on Saturday 12 December 2020, after a brief illness (not related to Covid-19), in Cornwall. He was 89 Our thoughts are with his four children, their families and his beloved wife Jane, “said his agent Jonny Geller.
Pseudonym of British writer David JM Cornwell, Jonh Le Carré, born in Poole in 1931, taught at Eton University, before becoming a British Foreign Office official and being recruited by the secret services (MI6). From this experience was born, in 1961, the character of the secret agent George Smiley, the protagonist of many of his novels. The Spy Who Came from the Cold (1963) established him for international attention. Among his most famous works, “The Mole”, “The Honorable Scholar”, “All Smiling Men”, “Call for the Dead”, “The Russia House”. Among the most recent, “A past as a spy” and “The spy who runs in the field.”
REPRODUCTION RESERVED © Copyright ANSA
[ad_2]
