Losses John Le Carré, a consecrated spy, son of a swindler and abandoned by his mother... who leaves a fortune of 80 million
He protected his private life
in the same way as the secrets accumulated as
an agent of M16,
the British intelligence service whose experiences helped him write the ins and outs
of espionage during the Cold War
in his novels .
John le Carré
(his real name was David Cornwell) was the heir to the narrative of Ian Fleming, from whom he also acquired traits of his character, agent 007, above all,
his conquering desire.
Died in 2020 at the age of 89, the author of
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
(1963) -part of the plot has to do with
his first love affair-
married twice.
Between 1954 and 1971 he was with
Ann Veronica Sharp,
with whom he had
three children,
Simon, Stephen and Timothy, whom
he left with a curt note:
"I think we should dissolve our marriage."
The following year
he joined his publisher,
Valerie Jane Eustace, with whom he sired
his last son, Nicholas.
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Throughout his second marriage, several fleeting
as well as intense
romances arose
with women as beautiful
as they were intelligent.
He usually used to
meet them on their business trips
or her book promotions, they would be together for a few days and even see each other for several weeks, but
then it was all over
.
Neither party made their bedroom secrets public.
Only
Suleika Dawson
remained with him in a
discreet background.
It is not her real name, it is believed to be a pseudonym taken from the main character in the novel
Zuleika Dobson
by British essayist Max Beerbohm.
The young woman met Le Carré
in September 1982
because at that time the author was
looking for a researcher
capable of summarizing the information necessary to record audiobooks.
The young woman was fully involved in
A perfect spy
(1986).
They became lovers
in August of the following year until the summer of 1985, resuming again for six months in 1999. In his private life, John le Carré was as
slippery and enigmatic
as his fictional heroes.
Le Carré, in an image from the 60s.GTRES
This mysterious woman has written her love story in
The Secret Heart, John le Carré: An Intimate Memoir,
which will be published on October 27 in the United Kingdom and in the rest of the Commonwealth countries.
She is expected to tell
hitherto unknown information
about a man who always ensured the safety of his family.
In any case,
he could not avoid the scandal
when it became known that he was sleeping with Susan,
the wife of his close friend,
the novelist James Kennaway.
For the first time in his life, he revealed
a part of his intimate facet
, moving away from the espionage genre with the novel
The Naive and Sentimental Lover
(1971).
The family has not commented on Suleika's book.
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