Simon Leys

Belgian-australian writer, sinologist and essayist.

Born September 28th, 1935 in Uccle.

Died August 11th, 2014 at 78 years old in Sydney (cancer).

Occupations
essayist, linguist, literary critic, poet lawyer, sinologist, translator, university teacher, writer
Wikipedia

There is only one god and his name is Death, and there is only one thing we say to Death: ‘Not today’. Syrio Forel