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John le Carre
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19 October 1931 - 12 December 2020
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John Le Carré is a literary pseudonym under which David John Moore Cornwell became world famous. He was born on October 10, 1931 in Poole, Dorset. As a child, he never dreamed of becoming a spy. He did not even have such thoughts. He studied first in Berkshire, at St Andrew's School, then in Dorset. In 1948 he won a school prize as a poet for the best English poem. In the same year he went to Switzerland, where he studied French and German at the University of Bern. He served in the army in Vienna,
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John Le Carré is a literary pseudonym under which David John Moore Cornwell became world famous. He was born on October 10, 1931 in Poole, Dorset. As a child, he never dreamed of becoming a spy. He did not even have such thoughts. He studied first in Berkshire, at St Andrew's School, then in Dorset. In 1948 he won a school prize as a poet for the best English poem. In the same year he went to Switzerland, where he studied French and German at the University of Bern. He served in the army in Vienna, as part of the British Army Intelligence Corps. In 56 he graduated from Oxford and began teaching French and German at Eton. In the 60th he joined the British Foreign Office.
He was already in government service when he began writing his spy novels. His employers did not mind when the first three books came out, but demanded that he take a pseudonym. Le Carré is still convinced that the same would have happened if he had written about butterflies. He was just a scout. He had to accept the costs of his profession.
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