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New Year Honours: Celebrities who turned them down in the past

New Year Honours: Celebrities who turned them down in the past
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12/31/2020
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Michael Sheen revealed this week he had returned his OBE.
Twice a year, the UK publishes its honors list recognizing those who have accomplished excellence in a spectrum of pursuits, including both celebrities and non-famous faces.
This year Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton was knighted, musician Craig David was appointed MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire), while 803 of the 1,239 people recognized were named for their work in their communities, with many honored for their response to the coronavirus pandemic.
However, not everyone is keen to accept the honor that has been bestowed on them, either at New Year s or for the Queen s birthday. ....

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Betrayal, illusion, late middle age — John Le Carré novels were more than just spy thrillers

Betrayal, illusion, late middle age â John Le CarrÃ© novels were more than just spy thrillers
What makes Le CarrÃ© so great is his premise that our inner lives are perhaps best understood as a study in self-deception and self-revelation.
Noah Feldman 15 December, 2020 1:06 pm IST
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John Le CarrÃ©, who died this week, was one of those rare writers who transcends his genre. His books were about spies, especially British ones. But his best novels were full-blown masterworks that explored enduring themes like betrayal, illusion and (his favorite) late middle age. Since hitting middle age myself, Iâve re-read his three greatest novels in every year. ....

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RTHK: Author John Le Carre dies aged 89

RTHK: Author John Le Carre dies aged 89
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Explained: John Le Carré, whose George Smiley made James Bond look like an 'international gangster'

Explained: John Le Carré, whose George Smiley made James Bond look like an ‘international gangster’
John Le Carré created a murky moral universe of British secret service operations that was far from the prevalent notion of spying as an act of glamorous daredevilry in the service of the nation.
Written by Paromita Chakrabarti
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Updated: December 18, 2020 3:13:00 pm
In this Aug. 28, 2008 file photo Author John Le Carre poses for a photo at his home in London. (AP)
British writer John Le Carré, 89, whose Cold-War tales redefined spy novels, passed away on Saturday in the UK’s Cornwall. ....

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John le Carré: A spy novelist who transcended genre to literary art

LondonL Kim Philby, the notorious Soviet mole who burrowed into the upper echelons of Britain’s Cold War-era intelligence services, was a subject of fear-driven fascination for novelist John le Carré. The two men, Le Carré felt, had far too much in common as upper-class-hating sons of dissolute fathers “so oversized that your only resort as a child was to subterfuge and deceit.”
For Le Carré, Philby’s traitorous life could have been his own.
“I knew, if you like, that Philby had taken a road that was dangerously open to myself, though I had resisted it,” Le Carré wrote in the introduction to a 1991 edition of his “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” novel of deceit, double agents, and moral ambiguity. “I knew that he represented one of the thank God, unrealised possibilities of my nature.” ....

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