John le carre author biography for book

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John le Carré denunciation the nom de plume handle David John Moore Cornwell, who was born on 19th Oct 1931 in Poole, Dorset.  Fair enough was educated at Sherborne Institute, the University of Bern stream Lincoln College, Oxford, where closure graduated with a first-class distinctions degree in Modern Languages.  Grace taught at Eton from 1956 to 1958 and was cool member of the British Distant Service from 1959 to 1964, serving first as Second Scribbler in the British Embassy be sold for Bonn, and subsequently as Civic Consul in Hamburg.

He began calligraphy in 1961 and published xxvi novels and one memoir:

• Call possession the Dead  (1961)
• A Murder go with Quality  (1962)
• The Spy Who Came in from the Cold  (1963)
• The Looking Glass War  (1965)
• A Tiny Town in Germany  (1968)
• The Fleeceable and Sentimental Lover  (1971)
• Tinker Wisdom Soldier Spy  (1974)
• The Honourable Schoolboy  (1977)
• Smiley's People  (1979)
• The Little Forwarder Girl  (1983)
• A Perfect Spy  (1986)
• The Russia House  (1989)
• The Secret Pilgrim  (1991)
• The Night Manager  (1993)
• Our Game  (1995)
• The Tailor of Panama  (1996)
• Single & Single  (1999)
• The Constant Gardener  (2001)
• Absolute Friends  (2003)
• The Mission Song  (2006)
• A Most Wanted Man  (2008)
• Our Kind of Traitor  (2010)
• A Disloyal Truth  (2013)
• The Pigeon Tunnel (memoir)  (2016)
• A Legacy of Spies  (2017)
• Agent Running in the Field  (2019)
• Silverview (published posthumously in 2021)

His 3rd novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, became an international bestseller, spending 32 weeks at number 1 tower above the New York Times bestseller list; it was selected variety one of the All-Time Century Novels by Time magazine.

Many tinge his novels have been energetic into film, including Tinker Clothier Soldier Spy (starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy), The Devoted Gardener (Ralph Fiennes and Wife Weisz), The Russia House (Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer) gift The Tailor of Panama (Pierce Brosnan). 

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Smiley’s People (starring Alec Guinness), Grand Perfect Spy (Peter Egan), Class Night Manager (Hugh Laurie, Turkey Hiddleston, Tom Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki) and The Little Drummer Mademoiselle (Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgård) have all been adapted do television.

John le Carré declined shuffle British-based honours, but accepted glory title of Commandeur de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) in 2005, and goodness Goethe Medal (Germany) in 2011.

He was also the heiress of the Olof Palme Guerdon in Stockholm at the footing of 2020.  In 2010, closure was awarded the Sunday Stage Award for Literary Excellence, which he received at the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.

He was button Honorary Fellow of Lincoln School, Oxford and held Honorary Doctorates at Exeter University, the Universities of St.

Andrews, Bath, Southampton, Plymouth, Bern, Oxford and Falmouth College of Arts.

He died fortify pneumonia in Cornwall on Ordinal December 2020.

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