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John le Carré: Spy novelist 'died an Irishman'


BBC News
By Alan Haslam
image captionJohn Le Carré was English to the core but was disillusioned after Brexit, his son says
He served as a British diplomat and an MI5 secret agent, but espionage writer John le Carré died an Irishman, his youngest son has said.
Nicholas Cornwell said his father, best known for his intricately plotted Cold War thrillers, gained Irish citizenship before his death in December.
Mr Cornwell told the BBC Le Carré was furious and disillusioned after Brexit.
Towards the end of his life he began to research his Irish roots.
The author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Spy Who Came in From the Cold discovered he was entitled to an Irish passport through his grandmother, Olive Wolfe, who was born in County Cork. ....

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John le Carré (1931–2020): Spy novelist and "inside-outside" man


John le Carré (1931–2020): Spy novelist and “inside-outside” man
British author and former intelligence agent John le Carré died of pneumonia December 12 aged 89 years. Le Carré leaves behind an intriguing body of literary work set against a background of some of the key political and social developments of the past half-century. In the course of his career, le Carré was able to draw from experiences made during and after the Cold War to attract millions of readers with his carefully researched spy novels.
Born in 1931, David John Moore Cornwell he adopted the name John le Carré as an author in the early 1960s was the son of Ronnie Cornwell, a conman with upper class airs who was permanently in debt due to his criminal business ventures. David Cornwell had a generally miserable childhood. The boy could hardly admit to his well-heeled, upper class fellow students his father was a convicted criminal. At a young age, he already felt himself to be somewhat of an int ....

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John Le Carré admits greatest work of fiction was pretending con man father was spy as kid | Books | Entertainment


His father didn t admit until he [le Carré] was an adult that he d served a jail term, and his mother left late at night without saying goodbye, said Sisman. As a boy, le Carré told school friends his father had been a spy.
Sisman explained: He was of a generation, during the war, that what your dad did was terribly crucial. Ronnie was that most despised person, a war profiteer, rather than away at the front fighting in the army.
He was sent to Sherborne, the Dorset public school, but ran away when he was 17. And here the truth and the fiction of his life start to collide - he claimed he d been recruited by MI5 to spy on student groups in Bern, Switzerland. ....

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