UCL Nordic/Baltic Research Group

'Our Man in Tallinn: Graham Greene's chance encounter in Estonia with a model spy'

Ian Thomson

Friday, 29 January 2009, 1.00-2.00, Taviton 431,

UCL SSEES

Graham Greene first visited the Estonian capital of Tallinn in 1934. His fellow passenger on the flight from Riga was an ex-Anglican clergyman installed in Tallinn as a Foreign Office Diplomat. Who was the mystery diplomat? And why did Greene originally set his Cuban entertainment, 'Our Man in Havana', in Tallinn?

Ian Thomson, a writer and journalist, is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at UCL. He won the 2002 W. H. Heinemann Prize for his biography of Primo Levi and is currently at work on a history of Tallinn during World War II for Faber & Faber.

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