Vale Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys)
By The Monthly (journal australien)
Monday, 11th August 2014
We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Pierre Ryckmans.
Pierre Ryckmans, whose pen-name was Simon Leys, was born in Belgium and settled in Australia in 1970. He taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University and was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney from 1987 to 1993.
His writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, Quadrant and The Monthly, and his books include The Hall of Uselessness, The Death of Napoleon, Other People’s Thoughts and The Wreck of the Batavia & Prosper.
In 1996 he delivered the ABC’s Boyer Lectures. His many awards include the Prix Renaudot, the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, the Prix Guizot and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction.
He was a giant of Australian letters and will be greatly missed.
The Monthly is proud to have worked with him, and we offer our deepest condolences to his loved ones.
By Simon Leys:
THE SINS OF THE SON
Vladimir Nabokov’s ’The Original of Laura: A Novel in Fragments’
THE CAMBODIAN GENOCIDE
Francis Deron’s ’The Trial of the Khmer Rouge’
IN THE WAKE OF MAGELLAN
The Voyage of Globalisation’s Forefather
LIES THAT TELL THE TRUTH
The paradox of art and creative writing
MEMENTO MORI
TELL THEM I SAID SOMETHING
(Books by Simon Leys - Black Inc)
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