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John le Carré: Novelist who turned espionage thrillers into an art form Anthony Hayward © Provided by The Independent The author John le Carré, who has died aged 89, transformed the spy novel into a literary masterpiece with complex plots, high tension and realistic dialogue. He took to espionage thrillers his experiences as an intelligence officer interviewing defectors from the other side of the Iron Curtain in the early days of the Cold War and later work for MI5 and MI6....

John le Carre dead of pneumonia: Spy-turned-novelist was 89 Updated Dec 13, 2020; Posted Dec 13, 2020 British writer John Le Carre attends a sreeening of Berlinale Special Series " The Night Manager " by Danish Susanne Bier and British David Farr screended during the 66th Berlinale Film Festival in Berlin on February 18, 2016. / AFP / John MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images Facebook Share John le Carre, the spy-turned-noveli...

LONDON (AP) — John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died. He was 89. Le Carre’s literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday he died in Cornwall, southwest England on Saturday after a short illness. The agency said his death was not related to COVID-19. His family said he died of pneumonia In classics such as “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” “T...

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...

John le Carre was one of the most highly acclaimed spy novelists of our time, and arguably one of the most accurate chroniclers of Britain in the Cold War. He brought the world of espionage – with all its secrecy, betrayal and treachery – into parallel with society, writing with the authority of a man who had lived and worked in the intelligence sphere. His accuracy in research and technique relied on what was undoubtedly his greatest gift – that of a born storyteller. Born as David Cornw...

A Murder of Quality in 1962. Then in 1963 came The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, a tale of an agent forced to carry out one last, risky operation in divided Berlin. It raised one of the authors recurring themes — the blurring of moral lines that is part and parcel of espionage, and the difficulty of distinguishing good guys from bad. Le Carré said it was written at one of the darkest points of the Cold War, just after the building of the Berlin Wall, at a time when he and his...

The childhood betrayal that forged a master spy writer: He fantasised about killing his conman father, and his mother abandoned him when he was five. No wonder John Le Carré, who has died at 89, was such a sardonic observer, writes RICHARD KAY Celebrated spy author John Le Carré died in Cornwall on Saturday aged 89 The former spys upbringing helped forge his ability to write thrilling novels His father was a ‘five-star conman’ and his mother deserted the family home  Secret services taug...

John le Carré, outstanding novelist whose work transcended the spy genre – obituary He transformed espionage fiction in the masterworks The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 14 December 2020 • 9:11am John le Carré, who has died aged 89, was one of the most successful post-war English novelists, and perhaps the finest thriller writer of the 20th century. Le Carré, the pen name adopted by David Cornwell, used his own experience of intelligence work to extend the r...

Updated: Dec 14 2020, 20:45 ET JOHN le Carrés thrillers are some of the greatest spy stories ever told – but theyre nothing compared to his real-life autobiography. The master novelist passed away aged 89 in Cornwall from pneumonia on Saturday after a short illness – the end of a truly remarkable life in British intelligence, Cold War espionage, and worldwide celebrity. 10 John le Carré, who passed away aged 89 at the weekend, lived an extraordinary life Credit: Getty Images - Getty Le C...

John le Carré, the great chronicler of our age, has died Features John le Carré, the great chronicler of our age, has died The authors novels topped global bestseller lists in each decade from the 1960s onwards. He won widespread international acclaim as a humanitarian, as well as a literary giant, winning the Olof Palme Prize in 2020. 13 December 2020 Photo: Nadav Kander John le Carré, (the pen name of David Cornwell), died on Saturday night, 12 December, fro...