Konogan Ar Tallec
Konnogan Ar Tallec | |
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 Tallec in June 2024 | |
| Leader of the Trade Unionist Party | |
| Assumed office 23 May 2024 | |
| Preceded by | position established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Konogan Ar Tallec 15 April 1891 Rouanezkador, Kaltariezh |
| Political party | Trade Unionist Party (2024-present) |
| Residence | Elendesgras |
Konogan Ar Tallec (born 15 April 1891) is a Kaltariz-born Marislian spy fiction author, comics artist, poet, public health engineer, trade unionist and politician who established the Trade Unionist Party in June 2024 ahead of the 2025 Marislian general election.
Ar Tallec is well known for his writing, particularly his character Gwion Little in the 1931 spy-fi thriller Celestial Spy, who reoccured through novels in the 1940s and 1950s; and the best-seller series Shattering Diplomacy, published between 2001 and 2010, who's titular character Sabine Cline has since become a cultural icon.
Early life
Born in Rouanezkador to working-class parents in 1891, Ar Tallec played amateur rugby in a local youth division around 8 to 12 years old. Ar Tallec left school early at 14 to work in a metalworking factory, where he made components for the war effort and helped his parents pay for rent. His father was fighting in the Great War and was killed in 1907 when Ar Tallec was 16. In his late teens he developed a love for writing, though failed to get any of his work published. Ar Tallec and his mother moved back to the countryside in 1915 where his mothers family were from.
Career
Ar Tallec published his first spy fiction novel in 1916, Showdown in Bingöl, which told the story of an aristocratic spy-sabotage feud in pre-Great War Packilvania, though it was not successful. He moved out in 1918 to live in Reterburg, a small town in northern Kaltariezh. He worked as a stable hand and later in a fish and chip shop, writing several novels that did not reach commercial success, though sold well domestically.
He spent the late 1930s in Gaëllekozhed studying civil engineering off of the earnings from his 1931 novel Celestial Spy, where spy-fiction met sci-fi in a thriller following character Gwion Little. He came away with a master's degree and worked the 1940s to late 1960s at various civil engineering companies, most notably his managerial role at Cavenhelm Point.
Ar Tallec became a member of the Institute for Civil Engineers Union in the 1940s. After the Auroran Imperial War, Ar Tallec was more involved in the trade union, eventually becoming management and being involved in coordinating strike action and negotiating for better health and safety standards that were largely implemented in the late 1990s during the Rothgerus administration.
Shattering Diplomacy novels
Between 2001 and 2010, Ar Tallec published a series of political spy thriller novels called Shattering Diplomacy, which evolved around the fall of the Matriarchy of Ethalria, and the power struggle of the political elite in the aftermath. The books were banned in the Matriarchy of Ethalria but became the most popular novel series in Aurora in the 2010s, with character Sabine Cline becoming a cultural phenominon and household name. The quadrilogy has sold over 100 million copies worldwide.