Simon Roy died Saturday after battling brain cancer.
Posted at 9:42 p.m.
Updated at 10:17 p.m.
Simon Roy died on Saturday afternoon, October 15, announced his publishing house, Éditions du Boréal. The Quebec writer, originally from Joliette, had asked for medical assistance in dying, while he had been suffering from brain cancer for the past few years.
In 2015, he won the Booksellers’ Prize with his book My Kubrick Red Lifea nod to the film The Shining, by Stanley Kubrick. In 2016, Simon Roy published Owen Hopkins, Esquire. He reveals, five years later, his novel Made by another. In 2022, he returns with my end of the worlda book that evokes the death he anticipated.
“Simon Roy proposed a poignant question about the possibility of continuing to live when our family heritage is marked by tragedy,” said Éditions du Boréal, in a press release.
The Quebec writer also shared his passion for literature as a professor at Collège Lionel-Groulx, in the Laurentians.
He leaves to mourn Marianne Marquis-Gravel, his partner, as well as his two children, Romane and Colin.