Simon Roy (author)

This article is about the author. For the comic book writer, see Simon Roy.

Simon Roy (14 June 1968 – 15 October 2022) was a Canadian author. He was also a professor of literature at the Collège Lionel-Groulx for more than thirty years.

Simon Roy
Roy in 2021
Born	(1968-06-14)14 June 1968 Saint-Alexis, Quebec, Canada
Died	15 October 2022(2022-10-15) (aged 54)
Occupation(s)	Author Professor

Biography

Born on 14 June 1968 in Saint-Alexis, Roy married Marianne Marquis-Gravel, with whom he had two children, Romane and Colin.^[1] He was known for his 2014 novel Ma vie rouge Kubrick, which received the Prix des libraires du Québec in the category of Québécois novels.^[2][3][4]

Roy died of brain cancer on 15 October 2022, at the age of 54.^[5] His relationship with Marquis-Gravel in the final months of his life was the subject of Simon and Marianne (Simon et Marianne), a 2024 documentary film by Pier-Luc Latulippe and Martin Fournier.^[6]

Books

• Ma vie rouge Kubrick (2014)^[7]
• Owen Hopkins, esquire (2016)
• Fait par un autre (2021)
• Ma fin du monde (2022)