Philippe Paquet (writer)

Philippe Paquet (born 1960) is a Belgian historian, biographer and Sinologist. Born in Namur, he has written for La Libre Belgique since 1984 and authored acclaimed biographies of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (Soong Mei-ling), which was reviewed in Le Monde^[1] and various other newspapers and journals. His 2010 biography of Belgian-Australian intellectual Simon Leys was described as showing a complex man on a hero's journey,^[2] and as "a vast omnibus of a work".^[3] The biography won several prizes, including the Prix Fondation Martine Aublet^[4] and the Prix Femina Essai.^[5]