{"product_id":"9781925435566","title":"Simon Leys: Navigator Between Worlds","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn award-winning biography of one of the greats.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books, Le Monde, Le Figaro Littéraire, Quadrant\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eMonthly\u003c\/i\u003e, and his books include \u003ci\u003eThe Hall of Uselessness, The Death of Napoleon, Other People’s Thoughts\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wreck of the Batavia\u0026amp;Prosper\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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and winning an award from the Académie Francaise – draws on extensive correspondence with Ryckmans, as well as his unpublished writings.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). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Philippe Paquet is a Belgian journalist and sinologist. He was president of the Society of Editors of \u003ci\u003eLa Libre Belgique\u003c\/i\u003e from 1997 to 2007. He is a lecturer at the Free University of Brussels and at the Higher Institute of Translators and Interpreters. For \u003ci\u003eLa Libre Belgique\u003c\/i\u003e he covers China and the United States. His previous biography, \u003ci\u003eMadame Chiang Kai-shek: A Century of Chinese History\u003c\/i\u003e, won numerous literary prizes.","brand":"Schwartz Publishing Pty. Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47132015001840,"sku":"9781925435566","price":41.12,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781925435566_p0.jpg?v=1763634882","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781925435566","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}