Leys, Simon, 1935-2014
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Name (Hebrew)
לייס, סימון, 1935-2014
Name (Latin)
Leys, Simon, 1935-2014
Other forms of name
Leys, Simon, 1935-
Ryckmans, Pierre
ליס, סימון, 1935-2014
ריקמנס, פייר, 1935-2014
Date of birth
1935
Date of death
2014
Occupation
Art historians
Critics
Essayists
Sinologists
Translators
Associated Language
fre
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- La mer dans la littérature française, 2018:title page (Simon Leys) page 4 of cover (Simon Leys (1935-2014); internationally renowned writer, essayist, translator, art historian, sinologist)
- New York times (online), viewed Aug. 18, 2014(in obituary published Aug. 14: Pierre Ryckmans; better known by his pen name, Simon Leys; b. Sept. 28, 1935, Brussels; d. Monday [Aug. 11, 2014], Sydney, aged 78; Belgian-born scholar of China who challenged a romanticized Western view of Mao Zedong in the 1960s with his early portrayal of Mao's Cultural Revolution as chaotic and destructive)
- The Chairman's new clothes, c1977:t.p. (Simon Leys)
- The hall of uselessness, 2013:ECIP t.p. (Simon Leys; pseudonym of Pierre Ryckmans; b. in Belgium, 1935; currently resides in Australia; writer, sinologist, essayist and literary critic; he studied law at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Louvain), Chinese language, literature and art in Taiwan; he went to Hong Kong, before settling down in Australia in 1970; he taught Chinese literature at the Australian National University (Canberra), and later (1987-93) was Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney; after that, he returned to Canberra, where he has lived ever since; in 1971, on the advice of his publisher, he decided to adopt a pseudonym before the release of Les habits neufs du président Mao, in order to avoid the risk of becoming a persona non grata in the People's Republic of China; he chose "Leys" after the main character of Victor Segalen's novel René Leys (published in 1922); he writes in French and English; in 2004, he was awarded the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca)
- His The Chairman's new clothes, c1977:t.p. (Simon Leys)
- Contemp. authors:v. 85-88 (Ryckmans, Pierre; pseud.: Simon Leys; b. 9/28/35)
- פרשת "בטאוויה" : אנטומיה של טבח, 2018:מדש הספר (סימון לייס היה שם העט של פייר ריקמנס, שנולד בבריסל ב-1935, ולמד משפטים ותולדות האמנות באוניברסיטה הקתולית של לוון... לייס מת מסרטן באוסטרליה ב-2014)