Pierre Ryckmans, better known by his pen name Simon Leys, was a Belgian-Australian writer, essayist and literary critic, translator, art historian, sinologist, and university professor, who lived in Australia from 1970. Wikipedia
Born: September 28, 1935, Brussels, Belgium
Died: August 11, 2014 (age 78 years), Canberra, Australia
Movies: The Emperor's New Clothes