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Georges Simenon


Born
in Liège, Belgium
February 13, 1903

Died
September 04, 1989

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Genre
Mystery & Thrillers, Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences
Guy de Maupassant, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Honoré de Balzac, Colette, Nikol ...more


Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) 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 ...more

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Pietr the Latvian (Maigret,...
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The Man Who Watched the Tra...
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The Yellow Dog (Maigret, #6)
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Dirty Snow
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The Hanged Man of Saint-Pho...
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3.82 avg rating — 4,050 ratings — published 1931 — 108 editions
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The Late Monsieur Gallet (M...
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Tre camere a Manhattan
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The Carter of "La Providence"
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Night at the Crossroads (Ma...
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“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
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“We are all potentially characters in a novel--with the difference that characters in a novel really get to live their lives to the full.”
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“It just happened. As though a moment comes when it's both necessary and natural to make a decision that has long since been made. ”
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