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Aside from being great yarns, Europe and the project of European integration lie at the heart of the best work of the great spy novelist, John Le Carré, who died on Saturday. “Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Britain’s consequent unqualified dependence on the United States in an era when the US is heading straight down the road to institutional racism and neo-fascism, is an unmitigated clusterfuck bar none,” says one of the characters in ‘A...

MI6 chiefs split over John Le Carrés spy thrillers: brilliant works or a stain on the service? MI6 boss Richard Moore was full of praise for the author, but predecessor Sir Richard Dearlove said Le Carré wrote with vitriol 14 December 2020 • 9:00pm John Le Carré was praised by the current MI6 chief as a giant of literature Credit: John MacDougall/AFP When the head of MI6 praised John Le Carré as “a giant of literature”, it appeared that the British intelligence service had finally bro...

Yves here. At the risk of having readers deem me to be a philistine, I have to confess to assuming John le Carré was a guy-spy-action author. Not that I don’t regularly read male-oriented fiction (I love sci fi) but aside from Graham Greene, I’ve never been a fan of spooky novels. Now that I have learned that le Carré was subtle and subversive, I can now look forward to sampling and hopefully enjoying his work. By Anthony Barnett (@AnthonyBarnett), the founding Editor-in-Chief of openDemo...

John Le Carré speaking at the German embassy in 2017. - Credit: German Embassy London/Wikimedia Commons “When I am in Hampstead there is a bench I favour on the Heath, tucked under a spreading tree and set apart from its companions, and that’s where I like to scribble. I have only ever written by hand.” So wrote John Le Carré in The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life, conjuring an image familiar to readers of spy fiction. The lone man, sat on the bench, engrossed in whatever he is hol...

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Master of spy thriller John le Carre dies at 89 1 published : 14 Dec 2020 at 06:45 Age did not wither John le Carres anger at the establishment. LONDON: John le Carre, who has died aged 89, shot to fame during the chilly depths of the Cold War as master of the spy thriller, before evolving to become a scathing chronicler of the moral costs of globalisation. Age did not wither the writers anger at the establishment, with Brexit -- Britains divisive departure from th...

Espionage novelist John le Carre dies at 89 597 LONDON, December 14, 2020 (BSS/TASS) – Famous British writer, author of espionage novels John le Carre has died at the age of 89, according to his literary agency the Curtis Brown Group, representing the interests of the writer. “It is with great sadness that I must share the news that David Cornwell, known to the world as John le Carre, passed away after a short illness (not COVID-19 related) in Cornwall on Saturday evening, 12th December, 20...

Explained: John Le Carré, whose George Smiley made James Bond look like an ‘international gangster’ John Le Carré created a murky moral universe of British secret service operations that was far from the prevalent notion of spying as an act of glamorous daredevilry in the service of the nation. Written by Paromita Chakrabarti , Edited by Explained Desk | New Delhi | Updated: December 18, 2020 3:13:00 pm In this Aug. 28, 2008 file photo Author Jo...

Sad news today as word has come that famed espionage author John le Carré, born David Cornwell, has passed away. He was 89. The news was first shared by Jonny Geller, CEO of The Curtis Brown Group, le Carré’s literary agency, who said the author passed on December 12 after a short illness with pneumonia. “His like will never be seen again, and his loss will be felt by every book lover, everyone interested in the human condition. We have lost a great figure of English literature, a man of ...

John le Carré obituary Eric Homberger John le Carré, who has died aged 89 of pneumonia, raised the spy novel to a new level of seriousness and respect. He was in his late 20s when he began to write fiction – in longhand, in small red pocket notebooks, on his daily train journey between his home in Buckinghamshire and his day job with MI5, the counter-intelligence service, in London. After the publication of two neatly crafted novels, Call for the Dead (1961) and A Murder of...