British best-selling author John le Carre, photographed during an interview with Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) at a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, 16 October 2017.
The author presented his new novel 'A Legacy of Spies' (German title: 'Das Vermaechtnis de LONDON - John le Carre, the spy-turned-novelist whose elegant and intricate narratives defined the Cold War espionage thriller and brought acclaim to a genre critics had once ignored, has died.
He was 89.Le Carre’s literary agency, Curtis Brown, said Sunday that he died in Cornwall, southwest England on Saturday after a short illness.
The death was not related to COVID-19.In such classics as “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,” “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” and “The Honourable Schoolboy,” Le.