John le Carré, Esq

Career: novelist; schoolmaster Eton 1956-58, British Foreign Serv 1960-64 (serv as second sec Bonn then political consul Hamburg); Grand Master Award Mystery Writers of America, Malaparte Prize Italy, Crime Writers' Assoc Diamond Dagger Award 1988, Goethe Medal 2011; subject of Time and Newsweek cover stories and work subject of many books; Hon DLitt: Univ of Exeter 1990, Univ of St Andrews 1996, Univ of Southampton 1997, Univ of Bath 1998, Univ of Oxford 2012; Hon Dr Berne Univ 2008; hon fell Lincoln Coll Oxford 1984; Commandeur d l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres 2005

Books and Publications: Call for the Dead (1961, filmed as the Deadly Affair 1967), A Murder of Quality (1962, TV film prize winner at Venice Prix Italia 1991), The Spy Who Came in From the Cold (1963, film, Somerset Maugham Award, Crime Writers' Assoc Golden Dagger Award, Best Mystery of the Year Mystery Writers of America Inc), The Looking Glass War (1965, film), A Small Town in Germany (1968), The Naïve and Sentimental Lover (1971), Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1974, BBC TV series), The Honourable Schoolboy (1977, James Tait Black Meml Prize, Crime Writers' Assoc Golden Dagger Award), Smiley's People (1980, BBC TV series), The Little Drummer Girl (1983, Warner Bros film), A Perfect Spy (1986, BBC TV series), The Russia House (1989, film, Nikos Kasanzakis Prize 1991), The Secret Pilgrim (1990), The Night Manager (1993), Our Game (1995), The Tailor of Panama (1996, film 2000), Single and Single (1999), The Constant Gardener (2001, film 2005), Absolute Friends (2004), The Mission Song (2006), A Most Wanted Man (2008), Our Kind of Traitor (2010); The Karla Trilogy (Smiley's People, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy) published in one volume as The Quest for Karla