Dr Pierre Ryckmans (‘Simon Leys’), Belgian-Australian writer, Sinologist, essayist and literary critic. Born in Brussels, September 28, 1935. Died in Canberra, August 11, 2014.
The late Belgian-born Pierre Ryckmans, writer, essayist, academic and literary critic, was one of the world’s greatest authorities on China.
Among his many works, he translated, and provided a commentary on, The Analects of Confucius. Former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd, whose honours thesis on Chi…
