When David John Moore Cornwell, also known as John Le Carré, accepted the Olof Palme Prize in Stockholm on 30 January 2020, his concluding existential question was this:
“How would Olof Palme wish to be remembered?”
And his answer: “For his life, not his death. For his humanism, courage and the breadth and completeness of his humanist vision.”
It is likely that the author, then an energetic 88-year-old with a passion for truth, had asked himself the same question. He concluded with a generous tribute to Olof Palme:
“And how would I like be remembered?
As the man who was awarded the 2019 Palme Prize will do me just fine.”
