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Georges Simenon

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Born: February 12 1903

Died: 0303 09 19891989

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Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Although he never resided in Belgium after 1922, he remained a Belgian citizen throughout his life.

Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have been printed.

He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Commissaire Maigret. The first novel in the series, Pietr-le-Letton, appeared in 1931; the last one, Maigret et M. Charles, was published in 1972. The Maigret novels were translated into all major languages and several of them were turned into films and radio plays. Two television series have been made in Great Britain.

During his "American" period, Simenon reached the height of his creative powers, and several novels of those years were inspired by the context in which they were written (Trois chambres à Manhattan , Maigret à New York , Maigret se fâche ).

Simenon also wrote a large number of "psychological novels", such as La neige était sale or Le fils , as well as several autobiographical works, in particular Je me souviens , Pedigree , Mémoires intimes .

In 1966, Simenon was given the MWA's highest honor, the Grand Master Award.

In 2005 he was nominated for the title of De Grootste Belg . In the Flemish version he ended 77th place. In the Walloon version he ended 10th place.

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Georges Simenon

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Books from Georges Simenon

La camera azzurra

Pietr the Latvian

Dirty Snow

The Man Who Watched Trains Go By

The Late Monsieur Gallet

The Yellow Dog

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

Maigret in Montmartre

The Carter of 'La Providence'

Tre camere a Manhattan

L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre

Maigret and the Gangsters

Monsieur Monde Vanishes

The Widow

Tropic Moon

Act of Passion

Il porto delle nebbie

Il piccolo libraio di Archangelsk

Maigret and the Man on the Bench

Maigret's First Case