It is our sad duty to inform you that Sue Ryan-Fazilleau, a
long-standing member of EASA whom many will remember for her remarkable humane
qualities, died of lung cancer earlier this month at the untimely age of 57.
 
Sue had been teaching Australian and New Zealand studies at the University of La
Rochelle, France, where she was a well-loved teacher and a very active academic,
specializing in the work of Peter Carey and contemporary Australian (crime)
fiction. She was the author of Peter Carey et la quête postcoloniale d'une
identité australienne (2007), and editor of New Zealand & Australia: History,
Narrative, Representation (2008). She organized her last conference as recently
as September 2011, in spite of the private struggle she was bravely fighting
unknown to most delegates.
 
She will be sorely missed by all who were lucky enough to cross paths with her.