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John le Carré

1931 - 2020

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David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 1931 – 12 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( lə-KARR-ay), was a British author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. A "sophisticated, morally ambiguous writer", he is considered one of the greatest novelists of the postwar era. During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John le Carré has received more than 6,647,160 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). John le Carré is the 496th most popular writer (up from 599th in 2019), the 388th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 459th in 2019) and the 48th most popular British Writer.

John le carré is most famous for his spy novels.

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  • 6.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John le Carré ranks 496 out of 5,755. Before him are Robert Burns, Kurt Vonnegut, Milena Jesenská, Robert Walser, Charles, Duke of Orléans, and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. After him are Nadine Gordimer, Beatrix Potter, Francesca da Rimini, Jean Paul, Al-Maʿarri, and Allen Ginsberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, John le Carré ranks 26. Before him are Mário Zagallo, Anatoly Dyatlov, Thomas Bernhard, Annie Girardot, Jim Jones, and Josef Masopust. After him are Leonard Nimoy, Ian Holm, Guy Debord, William Shatner, Rupert Murdoch, and João Gilberto. Among people deceased in 2020, John le Carré ranks 14. Before him are Olivia de Havilland, Max von Sydow, Qaboos bin Said al Said, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, Katherine Johnson, and Krzysztof Penderecki. After him are Ian Holm, Michel Piccoli, Albert Uderzo, Alan Parker, Juliette Gréco, and Tabaré Vázquez.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John le Carré ranks 388 out of 7,765. Before him are Bonnie Tyler (1951), David Niven (1910), Henry Moore (1898), Benjamin Graham (1894), Mary Read (1695), and Thomas Cook (1808). After him are Beatrix Potter (1866), Saint Boniface (680), Christian de Duve (1917), Margot Fonteyn (1919), John Wesley (1703), and Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, John le Carré ranks 48. Before him are John Galsworthy (1867), Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Harold Pinter (1930), Anthony Burgess (1917), and Robert Burns (1759). After him are Beatrix Potter (1866), J. M. Barrie (1860), A. A. Milne (1882), Percy Fawcett (1867), Philip Larkin (1922), and Samuel Butler (1835).

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