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• le Carré
  le Carré

  noun

  John David John Moore Cornwell, 1931–2020, English author of spy novels.
• Le Carré
  Le Carré

  noun

  John, real name David John Cornwell. born 1931, English novelist, esp of spy thrillers such as The Spy who came in from the Cold (1963), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1980), The Tailor of Panama (1996), and The Mission Song (2006)

le Carré

American  

[luh ka-ray] / lə kæˈreɪ /

noun

1. John David John Moore Cornwell, 1931–2020, English author of spy novels.

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Le Carré British  

/ lə ˈkæreɪ /

noun

1. John, real name David John Cornwell. born 1931, English novelist, esp of spy thrillers such as The Spy who came in from the Cold (1963), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1980), The Tailor of Panama (1996), and The Mission Song (2006)

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If that seems like an impossible contradiction, welcome to the mid-2020s, where reality seems increasingly like dystopian science fiction mixed with an especially opaque John le Carré spy thriller.

From Salon ● Sep. 7, 2026

Simon Cornwell, executive producer of the popular spy series, said his late father John le Carré "could never quite shake the character of his father off" when writing the book's villain, Roper.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

The spy-thriller miniseries “The Night Manager,” based on the John le Carré novel, won over critics and audiences when it aired way back in 2016.

From MarketWatch ● Dec. 31, 2025

But the Russians have also noticed Rzeszów’s new significance, and these days things can feel more John le Carré than “Gilmore Girls.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025

As Gadd points out, the sophisticated tension of author John le Carré this is not.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

Simon Cornwell believes Le Carré used the difficult relationship as "fuel" for his writing.

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

It represents just a fraction of the Le Carré archive held at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford, of which the Weston is a part, a collection comprising 1,237 boxes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

Le Carré himself attended the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern Languages with a focus on German literature, graduating with a First-Class Honours degree in 1956.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 26, 2026

The title of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Brazilian crime movie does it a disservice — put out of mind anything as creaky as Le Carré.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2025

Le Carré, who died in 2020, was the pseudonym of the author David Cornwell, judged by many to be the master of the spy novel.

From BBC ● Mar. 14, 2025

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