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Georges Joseph Christian Simenon ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 200 novels and many short works. Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. He was one of the most popular authors of the 20th century, selling over 500 million copies of his works during his lifetime. [ 1] Apart from his detective fiction ...
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With over five hundred titles to his credit and translations of his work into more than forty languages, Belgian novelist Georges Simenon, who wrote in French, is probably best known for his series of detective novels featuring French police inspector Jules Maigret. Through this protagonist, Simenon introduced to detective fiction the exploration o...
Early Callings Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, on February 13, 1903, to insurance accountant Désiré and homemaker Henriette Simenon. A bright pupil, he was determined to become a writer. When his father died, Simenon's schooling was cut short, and he was apprenticed to a pastry chef to learn a trade. Simenon abandoned his apprenticeship...
Plain StyleSimenon is above all a storyteller. His style is deliberately simple, as he aims at a kind of “universal vocabulary.” He builds compelling action and atmosphere through careful, subtle touches, and his readers are immediately gripped by their desire to know what happens next. Simenon's themes are particularly focused on the inner working...
Attesting to the uniqueness of Simenon's mystery fiction in general and his Maigret series in particular, novelist and critic Julian Symons wrote in his Mortal Consequences: A History—from the Detective Story to the Crime Novel, “The Maigret stories stand quite on their own in crime fiction, bearing little relation to most of the other work done in...
Research the psychological profiles of at least three infamous criminals from the past fifty years. Do you notice any characteristics these people have in common? Pretend you are an attorney defend...Make a “Wanted” poster for the suspects in two or more of Simenon's novels. Use character descriptions from the texts to visually portray the suspects. You may draw the characters on posterboard; t...Books
Assouline, Pierre. Simenon: A Biography. New York: Knopf, 1997. Barzun, Jacques, and Wendell Hertig Taylor. A Catalogue of Crime: Being a Reader's Guide to the Literature of Mystery, Detection, and Related Genres. New York: Harper, 1989. Becker, Lucille Frackman. Georges Simenon. Boston: Twayne, 1977. Bertrand, Alain. Maigret. Brussels, Belgium: Labor, 1994. Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 72 of French Novelists, 1930–1960. Detroit: Gale, 1988. Gide, Andre. The Journals of Andre Gide....
Periodicals
Simenon, Georges. Times Literary Supplement, December 14, 1940; November 25, 1960; July 29, 1983; August 12, 1988.
Web Sites
Books and Writers. Georges (Joseph Christian) Simenon (1903–1989). Retrieved February 14, 2008, from http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/simenon.htm. Trussel, Steve. “Simenon and His Maigret”. Retrieved February 17, 2008, from http://www.trussel.com/f_maig.htm. Last updated on February 16, 2008.
Writing as purgation. Georges Simenon was prolific in everything in life. He wrote over 350 books, boasted of 10,000 lovers and lived in 33 different homes, beginning in Liège, Belgium, where he was born and ending in Lausanne on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1989.
Georges Simenon (born Feb. 13, 1903, Liège, Belg.—died Sept. 4, 1989, Lausanne, Switz.) was a Belgian-French novelist whose prolific output surpassed that of any of his contemporaries and who was perhaps the most widely published author of the 20th century.
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Feb 16, 2016 · Simenon liked to think of himself as one of the “little people” whose lives he chronicled, but there was nothing little about him. By normal standards he was a prodigy. Among the hundreds of novels he produced, at least a dozen are of the first rank.
