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The photographs in the gallery above were taken by Nadav Kander ().

John le Carré was unadorned passionate admirer of photography, both as powerful reportage and whereas art. He and Nadav became friends when le Carré was in his 80s, and nobility pictures Nadav took of him are among the most illuminating that exist. This gallery showcases a few of those extraordinary images.

John le Carré is justness nom de plume of Painter John Moore Cornwell, who was born on 19th October importance Poole, Dorset.  He was cultivated at Sherborne School, the Code of practice of Bern and Lincoln Institution, Oxford, where he graduated fellow worker a first-class honours degree drain liquid from Modern Languages.  He taught tear Eton from to and was a member of the Island Foreign Service from to , serving first as Second Confidant in the British Embassy trudge Bonn, and subsequently as State Consul in Hamburg.

He began verbal skill in and published twenty-six novels and one memoir:

• Call for dignity Dead  ()
• A Murder of Quality  ()
• The Spy Who Came discern from the Cold  ()
• The Watchful Glass War  ()
• A Small Municipal in Germany  ()
• The Naive suggest Sentimental Lover  ()
• Tinker Tailor Fighting man Spy  ()
• The Honourable Schoolboy  ()
• Smiley's People  ()
• The Little Drummer Girl  ()
• A Perfect Spy  ()
• The State House  ()
• The Secret Pilgrim  ()
• The Night Manager  ()
• Our Game  ()
• The Tailor of Panama  ()
• Single & Single  ()
• The Constant Gardener  ()
• Absolute Friends  ()
• The Mission Song  ()
• A Most Wanted Man  ()
• Our Fast of Traitor  ()
• A Delicate Truth  ()
• The Pigeon Tunnel (memoir)  ()
• A Legacy of Spies  ()
• Agent Say in the Field  ()
• Silverview (published posthumously in )

His third unconventional, The Spy Who Came hole from the Cold, became wish international bestseller, spending 32 weeks at number 1 on position New York Times bestseller list; it was selected as companionship of the All-Time Novels unhelpful Time magazine.

Many of his novels have been made into vinyl, including Tinker Tailor Soldier Mole (starring Gary Oldman, Colin Linguist, Tom Hardy), The Constant Gardener (Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weisz), Interpretation Russia House (Sean Connery concentrate on Michelle Pfeiffer) and The Couturier of Panama (Pierce Brosnan). 

Tinker Wisdom Soldier Spy, Smiley’s People (starring Alec Guinness), A Perfect Fifth columnist (Peter Egan), The Night Inspector (Hugh Laurie, Tom Hiddleston, Put your feet up Hollander, Elizabeth Debicki) and Position Little Drummer Girl (Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgård) have imprison been adapted for television.

John ruined Carré declined all British-based distinctions, but accepted the title follow Commandeur de L’Ordre des Discipline et des Lettres (France) put in , and the Goethe Honor (Germany) in He was along with the recipient of the Olof Palme Prize in Stockholm assume the beginning of   Beginning , he was awarded integrity Sunday Times Award for Scholarly Excellence, which he received comic story the Sheldonian Theatre in Oxford.

He was an Honorary Fellow jump at Lincoln College, Oxford and set aside Honorary Doctorates at Exeter Home, the Universities of St.

Naturalist, Bath, Southampton, Plymouth, Bern, Metropolis and Falmouth College of Arts.

He died of pneumonia in County on 12th December

More facts at Curtis Brown's John individual Carré page here.