While working in intelligence, he published his first works of fiction in the early 1960s under the pseudonym John le Carré. Le Carré then worked covertly for MI5 and eventually MI6. “He defined the Cold War era and fearlessly spoke truth to power in the decades that followed.”īorn David Cornwall, le Carré was born in England in 1931, and first worked in foreign Intelligence for the British Army while studying foreign languages abroad. “John le Carré was an undisputed giant of English literature,” Geller wrote in a statement.
According to his literary agent Jonny Geller, le Carré died on the night of December 12 in Cornwall after a brief bout of pneumonia. British novelist John le Carré, whose genre-defining espionage novels including The Spy Who Came in From the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy inspired numerous film and television adaptations, is dead at the age of 89.
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