02761nam 2200481 450 991046794040332120200520144314.01-925435-56-3(CKB)4340000000188450(MiAaPQ)EBC4790814(Au-PeEL)EBL4790814(CaPaEBR)ebr11424288(OCoLC)1001385025(EXLCZ)99434000000018845020170908h20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierSimon Leys navigator between worlds /Philippe Paquet ; translated by Julie RoseCarlton, Victoria :La Trobe University Press,2016.©20161 online resource (xiii, 664 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), portraits"Originally published in French by Gallimard, 2016"--Title page verso.1-86395-920-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Simon Leys is the pen-name of Pierre Ryckmans, who 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. He died in 2014.Writing in three languages – French, Chinese and English – he played an important political role in revealing the true nature of the Cultural Revolution. His writing on China and on varied literary and cultural topics appeared regularly 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.This substantial biography – recently published by Gallimard in France to wide acclaim and winning an award from the Académie Francaise – draws on extensive correspondence with Ryckmans, as well as his unpublished writings. It has been translated by an internationally renowned French translator Julie Rose (based in Sydney).Authors, Belgian20th centuryBiographySinologistsBelgiumBiographyElectronic books.Authors, BelgianSinologists843.914Paquet Philippe870648Rose JulieMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467940403321Simon Leys1943620UNINA