John le Carré |
John le Carré in Hamburg, 2008
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Born |
David John Moore Cornwell
(1931-10-19) 19 October 1931 (age 82)
Poole, Dorset, England |
Occupation |
Novelist, former intelligence officer |
Language |
English |
Nationality |
British |
Genres |
Spy fiction |
Notable work(s) |
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,
The Honourable Schoolboy,
Smiley's People, The Constant Gardener |
Spouse(s) |
Alison Sharp (m. 1954–1971)
Valerie Eustace (m. 1972–present) |
Children |
4 sons |
johnlecarre.com |
David John Moore Cornwell (born 19 October 1931), pen name John le Carré / /, is a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6, and began writing novels under a pen name. His third novel The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) became an international best-seller, and remains one of his best-known works. Following the novel's success, he left MI6 to become a full-time author.
Le Carré has since established himself as an important writer of espionage fiction. In 1990, he received the Helmerich Award which is presented annually by the Tulsa Library Trust.[1] In 2008, The Times ranked Le Carré 22nd on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".[2] In 2011, he won the Goethe Medal, a yearly prize given by the Goethe Institute.
Contents
- 1 Early life and career
- 2 Personal life
- 3 Writing style
- 4 Politics
- 5 Last television interviews
- 6 Best novels list
- 7 Adaptations
- 8 Bibliography
- 8.1 Novels
- 8.2 Non-fiction
- 8.3 Short stories
- 8.4 Omnibus
- 8.5 Screenplays
- 8.6 Executive producer
- 8.7 Actor
- 9 Archive
- 10 Awards and honours
- 11 References
- 12 Further reading
- 13 External links
Early life and career[edit]
On 19 October 1931, David John Moore Cornwell was born to Richard Thomas Archibald (Ronnie) Cornwell (1906–75) and Olive (Glassy) Cornwell, in Poole, Dorset, England. He was the second son to the marriage, the first being Tony, two years his elder, now a retired advertising executive; his younger half-sister is the actress Charlotte Cornwell; and Rupert Cornwell, a former Independent newspaper Washington bureau chief, is a younger half-brother.[3][4] John le Carré said he did not know his mother, who abandoned him when he was five years old, until their re-acquaintance when he was 21 years old.[5] His relationship with his father was difficult, given that the man had been jailed for insurance fraud, was an associate of the Kray twins[5] (among the foremost criminals in London) and was continually in debt. A biographer reports,
"His father, Ronnie, made and lost his fortune a number of times due to elaborate confidence tricks and schemes which landed him in prison on at least one occasion. This was one of the factors that led to le Carré's fascination with secrets."[6]
The character 'Rick Pym', the scheming con-man father of protagonist 'Magnus Pym' in his later novel A Perfect Spy (1986), was based on Ronnie. When Ronnie died in 1975, le Carré paid for a memorial funeral service but did not attend.[5]
Cornwell's formal schooling began at St Andrew's Preparatory School, near Pangbourne, Berkshire, then continued at Sherborne School; he proved unhappy with the typically harsh English public school régime of the time, and disliked his disciplinarian housemaster, Thomas, and so withdrew. From 1948 to 1949, he studied foreign languages at the University of Bern in Switzerland. In 1950 he joined the Intelligence Corps of the British Army garrisoned in Austria, working as a German language interrogator of people who crossed the Iron Curtain to the West. In 1952, he returned to England to study at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he worked covertly for the British Security Service, MI5, spying upon far-left groups for information about possible Soviet agents.[7]
When Ronnie declared bankruptcy in 1954, Cornwell quit Oxford to teach at a boys' preparatory school; however, a year later, he returned to Oxford and graduated, in 1956, with a First Class Honours Bachelor of Arts degree. He then taught French and German at Eton College for two years, afterwards becoming an MI5 officer in 1958; he ran agents, conducted interrogations, tapped telephone lines, and effected break-ins.[8] Encouraged by Lord Clanmorris (who wrote crime novels as 'John Bingham'), and whilst an active MI5 officer, Cornwell began writing Call for the Dead (1961), his first novel. Lord Clanmorris was one of two models – Vivian H. H. Green[9] being the other – for George Smiley, the spymaster of the Circus. As a schoolboy, Cornwell had first met Green when he was the Chaplain and Assistant Master at Sherborne School (1942–51), and then later as Rector at Lincoln College.
In 1960, Cornwell transferred to MI6, the foreign-intelligence service, and worked under 'Second Secretary' cover in the British Embassy at Bonn; he later was transferred to Hamburg as a political consul. There, he wrote the detective story A Murder of Quality (1962) and The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), as 'John le Carré' ('John the Square', in French [8]), a pseudonym required because Foreign Office officers were forbidden to publish in their own names. Cornwell left the service in 1964 to work full-time as a novelist, as his intelligence officer career was ended by the betrayal of British agents' covers to the KGB by Kim Philby, a British double agent (of the Cambridge Five).[7][10] Le Carré depicts and analyses Philby as the upper-class traitor, code-named Gerald by the KGB, the mole George Smiley hunts in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974).[11][12] Credited by his pen name, Cornwell appears as an extra in the 2011 film version of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, among the guests at the Christmas party seen in several flashback scenes.
In 1964, le Carré won the Somerset Maugham Award, established to enable British writers younger than thirty-five to enrich their writing by spending time abroad.
Personal life[edit]
In 1954, Cornwell married Alison Ann Veronica Sharp; they had three sons - Simon, Stephen and Timothy - and divorced in 1971.[13] In 1972, Cornwell married Valérie Jane Eustace, a book editor with Hodder & Stoughton.[14] They have one son, Nicholas, who writes as Nick Harkaway.[15] Le Carré has resided in St Buryan, Cornwall, UK, for more than forty years where he owns a mile of cliff close to Land's End.[16]
In 1998, he was awarded an Honorary Degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Bath.[17]
In 2012, he was awarded the Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa by the University of Oxford.[18]
Writing style[edit]
The genre of le Carré's first two novels – Call for the Dead (1961) and A Murder of Quality (1962) – is mystery fiction in which the hero George Smiley (of the SIS, the Circus) resolves the riddles of the deaths investigated; the motives are more personal than political.[19]
The spy novel œuvre of John le Carré stands in contrast to the physical action and moral certainty of the James Bond thriller established by Ian Fleming in the mid nineteen-fifties; the le Carré Cold War features unheroic political functionaries aware of the moral ambiguity of their work, and engaged in psychological more than physical drama. They experience little of the violence typically encountered in action thrillers, and have very little recourse to gadgets. Much of the conflict they are involved in is internal, rather than external and visible.[20]
Unlike the moral certainty of Fleming's British Secret Service adventures, le Carré's Circus spy stories are morally complex. They emphasise the fallibility of Western democracy and of the secret services protecting it, often implying the possibility of East-West moral equivalence.[20]
A Perfect Spy (1986), which chronicles the boyhood moral education of Magnus Pym and how it leads to his becoming a spy, is the author's most autobiographical espionage novel, reflecting the boy's very close relationship with his con man father. Biographer Lynndianne Beene describes the novelist's own father, Richard Cornwell, as 'an epic con man of little education, immense charm, extravagant tastes, but no social values'; le Carré reflected that 'writing A Perfect Spy is probably what a very wise shrink would have advised'.
Most of le Carré's novels are spy stories set amidst the Cold War (1945–91); a notable exception is The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971), an autobiographical, stylistically uneven, mainstream novel of a man's post-marital existential crisis. Another exception from the East-West conflict is The Little Drummer Girl that uses the Israel-Palestinian conflict--and which offers one of the most poignant and insightful treatments of the two conflicting sides in that interminable struggle. And Le Carré is able to carry this feat off without once resorting to moralism or preaching.
With the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989, le Carré's œuvre shifted to portrayal of the new multilateral world. For example, The Night Manager, his first completely post-Cold-War novel, deals with drug and arms smuggling in the murky world of Latin America drug lords, shady Caribbean banking entities, and look-the-other-way western officials.
As a journalist, he wrote The Unbearable Peace (1991), a non-fiction account of Brigadier Jean-Louis Jeanmaire (1911–92), the Swiss Army officer who spied for the USSR from 1962 until 1975.[21] In 2009, he donated the short story 'The King Who Never Spoke' to the Oxfam 'Ox-Tales' project, which included it in the project's Fire volume.[22]
Politics[edit]
In January 2003 The Times published le Carré's article "The United States Has Gone Mad",[23] which condemned the approaching Iraq War. He observed in this essay, "How Bush and his junta succeeded in deflecting America's anger, from Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein, is one of the great public relations conjuring tricks of history".[24] In 2006, he contributed the above article to a volume of political essays entitled "Not One More Death". The book is highly critical of the war in Iraq. Le Carré's contribution was entitled "Art, truth and politics". Other contributors include Harold Pinter, Richard Dawkins, Michel Faber, Brian Eno, and Haifa Zangana.[25]
He is the author of a testimonial in The Future of the NHS (2006) (ISBN 1858113695) edited by Dr. Michelle Tempest.
Last television interviews[edit]
On Monday 13 September 2010 he was interviewed on Channel 4 News by journalist Jon Snow at his house in Cornwall. The conversation involved a few topics: his writing career generally and processes adopted for writing – specifically about his current book, Our Kind of Traitor, involving Russia and its current global influences, financially and politically; his SIS career, reasoning why, both personally and more generally, one did such a job then, as compared to now; and how the fight against communism then has now conversely moved to the hugely negative effects of certain aspects of excessive capitalism.
During the interview he made it clear that it would be his last television interview ever. While reticent as to his exact reasons, those he was willing to cite were that of slight self-loathing (which he considered most people feel), along with a distaste for showing off (he felt that writing necessarily involved a lot of this anyway) and to breaching what he felt was the necessarily solitary nature of the writer's work. He was also wary of wasting writing time and dissipating his talent in social success, having seen this happen to many talented writers, to the detriment of their later work.[26] A week after this purportedly final television appearance, however, le Carré was interviewed on television in the United States, on the programme Democracy Now!.[27] Cornwell's explanation aired on Democracy Now! on Monday 11 October 2010.[28]
AMY GOODMAN: Now, we were interested because Channel 4 just said "the last interview" with John le Carré, and yet here we are. Why did you change your mind?
JOHN LE CARRÉ: I didn’t change my mind. The full text with Channel 4 was that that was my last interview in the UK. And this is the last book about which I intend to give interviews. That isn’t because I’m in any sense retiring. I’ve found that, actually, I’ve said everything I really want to say, outside my books. I would just like—I’m in wonderful shape. I’m entering my eightieth year. I just want to devote myself entirely to writing and not to this particular art form of conversation.
Le Carré was interviewed on the 27 February 2011 episode of the CBS program Sunday Morning, and once again announced that it would be the last interview he would grant.[29] Le Carré was interviewed at the Hay on Wye festival 2013.
Best novels list[edit]
In an interview with John le Carré, broadcast 5 October 2008 on BBC Four, Mark Lawson asked him to name a Best of le Carré list of books; the novelist answered:
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
- The Tailor of Panama
- The Constant Gardener
Adaptations[edit]
Film
- In 1965, Martin Ritt directed the first film adaptation of a John le Carré novel, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, with Richard Burton as protagonist Alec Leamas.
- In 1966, Sidney Lumet directed The Deadly Affair, an adaptation of Call for the Dead, with James Mason as Charles Dobbs (George Smiley in the novel).
- In 1969, Frank Pierson directed The Looking Glass War, with Anthony Hopkins as Avery, Christopher Jones as Leiser and Sir Ralph Richardson as LeClerc.
- In 1984, George Roy Hill directed The Little Drummer Girl, with Diane Keaton as Charlie.
- In 1990, Fred Schepisi directed The Russia House, with Sean Connery as Barley Blair.
- In 2001, John Boorman directed The Tailor of Panama, with Pierce Brosnan as Andy Osnard, a disgraced spy, and Geoffrey Rush as emigre English tailor Harry Pendel.
- In 2005, Fernando Meirelles directed The Constant Gardener, with Ralph Fiennes as Justin Quayle, set in the slums in Kibera and Loiyangalani, Kenya. The poverty so affected the film crew that they established the Constant Gardener Trust to provide basic education to those areas. John le Carré is a patron of the charity.
- In 2011, Tomas Alfredson directed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, starring Gary Oldman as George Smiley. The film was released on 5 September 2011 at the Venice Film Festival and in the UK on 16 September 2011.
Television
- In 1979, the BBC adapted Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy for television, with Alec Guinness as George Smiley in a six-part series. Two years later, in 1981, he reprised the role in Smiley's People. The BBC did not adapt The Honourable Schoolboy, the middle book of the Karla Trilogy featuring Jerry Westerby (Joss Ackland from Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), because production in East Asia would have cost too much.
- In 1987, Peter Smith directed the television adaptation of A Perfect Spy (BBC), with Peter Egan as Magnus Pym, and Ray McAnally as Rick.
- In 1991, Gavin Millar directed A Murder of Quality (Thames Television), with Denholm Elliott as George Smiley, and Joss Ackland as Terence Fielding.
Radio
- The 1994 BBC radio adaptation of The Russia House features Tom Baker as Barley Blair.
- The Complete Smiley is an eight radio-play series, based upon the novels featuring George Smiley, that commenced broadcast on 23 May 2009 on BBC Radio 4, beginning with Call for the Dead, with Simon Russell Beale as George Smiley, and concluding with The Secret Pilgrim, in June 2010.[30]
- Damian Lewis has recorded a radio adaptation of A Delicate Truth for BBC Radio 4's Book at Bedtime to be broadcast in May 2013.[31]
Bibliography[edit]
Novels[edit]
- Call for the Dead (1961)
- A Murder of Quality (1962)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963) (Edgar Award 1965, Best Novel)
- The Looking Glass War (1965)
- A Small Town in Germany (1968)
- The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
- The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
- Smiley's People (1979)
- The Little Drummer Girl (1983)
- A Perfect Spy (1986)
- The Russia House (1989)
- The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
- 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 Delicate Truth (2013)[32]
Non-fiction[edit]
- The Good Soldier (1991) collected in Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace
- The United States Has Gone Mad (2003) collected in Not One More Death (2006)
Short stories[edit]
- Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn? (1967) published in the Saturday Evening Post 28 January 1967.
- What Ritual is Being Observed Tonight? (1968) published in the Saturday Evening Post 2 November 1968.
- The Writer and The Horse (1968) published in The Savile Club Centenary Magazine and later The Argosy (& The Saturday Review under the title A Writer and A Gentleman.)
- The King Who Never Spoke (2009) published in Ox-Tales: Fire 2 July 2009.
Omnibus[edit]
- The Incongruous Spy (1964) (containing Call for the Dead and A Murder of Quality)
- The Quest for Karla (1982) (containing Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy and Smiley's People) (republished in 1995 as Smiley versus Karla in the UK; and John Le Carré: Three Complete Novels in the U.S.)
Screenplays[edit]
- End of the Line (1970) broadcast 29 June 1970
- A Murder of Quality (1991)
- The Tailor of Panama (2001) with John Boorman and Andrew Davies
Executive producer[edit]
- The Tailor of Panama (2001)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Actor[edit]
- The Little Drummer Girl (1984, as David Cornwell)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011, as John le Carré)
Archive[edit]
In 2010, le Carré donated his literary archive to the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The initial eighty-five boxes of material deposited included handwritten drafts of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Constant Gardner. The library hosted a public display of these and other items to mark World Book Day in March 2011.[33][34]
Awards and honours[edit]
- 1963 British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for The Spy Who Came In From The Cold[35]
- 1964 Somerset Maugham Award for The Spy Who Came In From The Cold[36]
- 1965 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for The Spy Who Came In From The Cold[37]
- 1977 British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger for The Honourable Schoolboy[35]
- 1977 James Tait Black Memorial Prize Fiction Award for The Honourable Schoolboy
- 1984 Honorary Fellow Lincoln College, Oxford[38]
- 1984 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Grand Master [37]
- 1988 British Crime Writers Association Diamond Dagger Lifetime Achievement Award [39]
- 1988 The Malaparte Prize, Italy[38]
- 1990 Honorary Degree University of Exeter[40]
- 1990 The Helmerich Award of the Tulsa Library Trust.[1]
- 1991 Nikos Kasanzakis prize
- 1996 Honorary Degree University of St. Andrews[41]
- 1997 Honorary Degree University of Southampton[42]
- 1998 Honorary Degree University of Bath[17]
- 2005 British Crime Writers Association Dagger of Daggers for The Spy Who Came In From The Cold[43]
- 2005 Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters, France[38]
- 2008 Honorary Doctorate University of Bern[44]
- 2011 Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute[45]
- 2012 Honorary Degree University of Oxford[46]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Peggy V. Helmerich Distinguished Author Award". Tulsa Library Trust. 1990.
- ^ Staff writer (5 January 2008). "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Times Newspapers (London). Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ "Rupert Cornwell". Independent News and Media (London). Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ Staff writer (25 September 1989). "Espionage: The Perfect Spy Story". Time Inc (New York). Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ a b c Brennan, Zoe What does le Carré have to hide? The Daily Telegraph, 2 April 2011, Retrieved 5 April 2011
- ^ "John Le Carre biography, plus links to book reviews and excerpts.". BookBrowse. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ a b Anthony, Andrew (1 November 2009). "Observer Profile: John le Carré: A man of great intelligence". Guardian News and Media. London. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ a b Garton Ash, Timothy. – Life and Letters: "'The Real le Carre'". – The New Yorker. – 15 March 1999.
- ^ Staff (26 January 2005). "The Reverend Vivian Green – Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph (London: TMG). ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ George Plimpton (Summer 1997). "John le Carré, The Art of Fiction No. 149". The Paris Review.
- ^ Morrison, Blake (11 April 1986). "Then and Now: John le Carre". Times Literary Supplement (London: News Intl). ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Brennan, Zoe (2 April 2011). "What does John Le Carre have to hide? – Telegraph". The Daily Telegraph (London: TMG). ISSN 0307-1235. OCLC 49632006. Retrieved 4 August 2011.
- ^ Debrett's People of Today, "LE CARRE – John (pen name of David John Moore Cornwell)," 1 November 2000
- ^ "Le Carré pays tribute to his first love," Tim Walker, Edited by Richard Eden, 5 June 2009, The Daily Telegraph
- ^ "Written in his stars: son of Le Carré gets £300,000 for first novel," Ian Herbert, 6 June 2007, The Independent
- ^ "Spy writer fights for clifftop paradise," Geoffrey Gibbs, 24 July 1999, The Guardian
- ^ a b "Honorary Graduates 1989 to present". bath.ac.uk. University of Bath. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
- ^ Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2012 - University of Oxford. Ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 2013-07-26.
- ^ Tayler, Christopher (25 January 2007). "Belgravia Cockney". London Review of Books (London: LRB) 29 (2): 13–14. ISSN 0260-9592. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ a b Holcombe, Garan (2006). "John le Carré". British Council. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ "Granta 35: The Unbearable Peace". Sigrid Rausing. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ "Ox-Tales". Oxfam. Retrieved 4 March 2010.
- ^ le Carré, John (15 January 2003). "Opinion: The United States of America has gone mad". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 8 February 2011.
- ^ le Carre, John (15 January 2003). "Opinion: The United States of America has gone mad". The Times (UK Newspapers). Retrieved 20 Feb. 2010.
- ^ Not one more death permalink. The Library of Congress.
- ^ Le Carré betrayed by 'bad lot' spy Kim Philby, Channel 4 News. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ Goodman, Amy (20 September 2010). "Legendary British Author John le Carré on Why He Won't Be Reading Tony Blair's Iraq War-Defending Memoir". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 20 September 2010.
- ^ Goodman, Amy (11 October 2010). "Exclusive: British Novelist John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, the Exploitation of Africa and His New Novel, "Our Kind of Traitor"". Democracy Now!. Retrieved 11 October 2010.
- ^ CBS Sunday Morning, 27 February 2011.
- ^ "The Complete Smiley". BBC – Radio 4 – Drama. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
- ^ BBC Staff (13 May 2013). "John le Carre:'My frustration with Britain'". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ "A Delicate Truth". Curtis Brown Literary Agency. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
- ^ Katherine Sellgren (BBC News education reporter) (24 February 2011). "John le Carre donates archive to Bodleian Library". BBC News. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ Charlotte Higgins (23 February 2011). "John le Carre gives his literary archive to Oxford's Bodleian Library". The Guardian. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ a b "The CWA Gold Dagger". Crime Writers Association. 5 July 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2013.
- ^ "The Somerset Maugham Award - Past Winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ a b "The Edgar database". Mystery Writers of America. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ^ a b c "John le Carre, Esq". Debretts. Retrieved 10 March 2013.
- ^ "The Cartier Diamond Dagger". Crime Writers Association. 5 July 2012. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
- ^ "Previous honorary graduates". University of Exeter. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ "Honorary Graduates". St Andrews University. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ "Honorary graduates of earlier years". The University of Southampton. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ "John le Carrie wins the Dagger of Daggers". Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^ "Bern University honours John le Carre". The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. 6 December 2008. Retrieved 9 March 2013.
- ^ "The Goethe Medal - Award Recipients 1955-2012". The Goethe Institute. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
- ^ "Oxford announces honorary degrees for 2012". University of Oxford. 19 January 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2013.
Further reading[edit]
- Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series, Vol. 33, pp. 94–99.
- Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 3 (1975); Vol. 5 (1976); Vol. 9 (1978); Vol. 15 (1980); Vol. 28 (1984).
- Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 87: British Mystery and Thriller Writers Since 1940, First Series, (Detroit: Gale, 1989).
- LynnDianne Beene, John le Carré (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1992).
- Hindersmann, Jost (2005). "The right side lost, but the wrong side won: John le Carré's Spy Novels before and after the End of the Cold War". Clues: A Journal of Detection 23 (4): 25–37. doi:10.3200/CLUS.23.4.25-37. ISSN 0742-4248.
- Bruccoli, Matthew J.; Baughman, Judith S., eds. (2004). Conversations with John le Carré. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 1-57806-669-7
- The Spy Novels of John le Carre: Balancing Ethics and Politics by Myron J. Aronoff. Published by Palgrave ISBN 0-312-21482-0 (HB) - 0-312-23881-9 (PB)
- Smiley's Circus: A guide to the Secret World of John le Carre by David Monaghan. Published by Orbis Book Publishing ISBN 0-85613-916-5
- The Spy Who Liked Me; on the set with Richard Burton and Martin Ritt, by John le Carré, The New Yorker magazine, April 15, 2013, pages 28–32. (contains a 1965 photograph of actor Richard Burton and author John le Carré sitting together on the movie set of "The Spy Who Came in from the Cold")
- Snyder, Robert Lance. The Art of Indirection in British Espionage Fiction: A Critical Study of Six Novelists. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011. ISBN 978-0-7864-6379-4.
- Snyder, Robert Lance. "Secrecy's Genesis: John le Carré's Our Kind of Traitor." South Carolina Review 45.2 (Spring 2013): 113-19.
External links[edit]
- John le Carré discography at Discogs
- 1966 BBC TV interview with Malcolm Muggeridge
- Transcript of interview with David Cornwell by Ramona Koval, The Book Show, ABC Radio National, on A Most Wanted Man, 19 November 2008
- Interview, People Magazine, issue 13 September 1993
- "John le Carré's allegiances": a review in the TLS by Michael Saler, September 2006
- BBC George Smiley site
- The Mission Song Reviews at Metacritic.com
- John le Carré biography on Books and Writers
- 1989 NPR Interview of le Carré
- "Colorful Crime Boss Inspires Le Carre's Traitor", NPR story, October 8, 2010.
- 1964 Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Interview of le Carré
- John le Carré on the Iraq War, Corporate Power, and the Exploitation of Africa – video interview by Democracy Now!
- Le Carré interviewed on CBC Radio's Writers and Company (2010): Part 1 Part 2
- John le Carré interviewed on Charlie Rose
Novels by John le Carré
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- Call for the Dead (1961)
- A Murder of Quality (1962)
- The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963)
- The Looking Glass War (1965)
- A Small Town in Germany (1968)
- The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971)
- Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974)
- The Honourable Schoolboy (1977)
- Smiley's People (1979)
- The Little Drummer Girl (1983)
- A Perfect Spy (1986)
- The Russia House (1989)
- The Secret Pilgrim (1990)
- 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 Delicate Truth (2013)
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- WorldCat
- VIAF: 109254932
- LCCN: n79083252
- ISNI: 0000 0003 6865 2534
- GND: 119029375
- LIBRIS: 70373
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Persondata |
Name |
le Carré, John |
Alternative names |
Cornwell, David John Moore |
Short description |
Writer |
Date of birth |
19 October 1931 |
Place of birth |
Poole, Dorset, England |
Date of death |
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