After battling brain cancer, Quebec author Simon Roy had recourse to medical assistance in dying on Saturday afternoon, the Éditions du Boréal said in a press release.
Simon Roy taught literature at Collège Lionel-Groulx, but he was first known for his book My Kubrick Red Lifepublished in 2014, and winner of the Prix des Libraires du Québec that year.
His works will follow Owen Hopkins, Esquire, Made by another and his most recent novel which marries fiction and reality my end of the world, released last May. The latter offers a reflection on fear based on his experience as well as that of authors Stephen King, Stanley Kubrick and Orson Welles.
His publisher mentions in a press release that his books have sometimes relied on “an obsessive analysis of the film The Shining by Stanley Kubrick. He wondered in particular about the possibility of continuing to live when our life is marked by tragedy. A theme he evokes in his latest novel where he approaches “dizzyingly” his own death.
“There is no doubt that the work he leaves us, marked by a profound originality, will have forced us to recognize that the stories, inextricably mixing reality and lies, constitute the very substance of our lives”, wrote the Editions du Boreal.
Simon Roy is survived by his partner, Marianne Marquis-Gravel, and his children, Romane and Colin.
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