Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 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. Simenon was born at 26 rue Léopold (now number 24) in Liège to Désiré Simenon and his wife Henriette Brüll. Désiré Simenon worked in an accounting office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April 1902. Although Simenon was born on Friday 13 February 1903, superstition resulted in his birth being registered as having been on the 12th. This story of his birth is recounted at the beginning of his novel Pedigree. The Simenon family traces its origins back to Belgian Limburg. Simenon could trace his line back to peasants living in the area since as early as 1580. His mother had origins from Limburg, the Netherlands and Germany while his father was of Walloon origin. One of his mother's most notorious ancestors was Gabriel Brühl, a criminal who preyed on Limburg from the 1720s until he was hanged in 1743. Later, Simenon would use Brühl as one of his many pen names. In April 1905, two years after Simenon's birth, the family moved to 3 rue Pasteur (now 25 rue Georges Simenon) in Liège's Outremeuse neighbourhood. Simenon's brother Christian was born in September 1906 and eventually became their mother's favourite child, much to Simenon's chagrin. Later, in February 1911, the Simenons moved to 53 rue de la Loi, also in the Outremeuse. In this larger home, the Simenons were able to take in lodgers. Typical among them were apprentices and students of various nationalities, giving the young Simenon an important introduction to the wider world; this marked his novels, notably Pedigree and Le Locataire. At the age of three, Simenon learned to read at the Saint-Julienne nursery school. Then, between 1908 and 1914, he attended the Institut Saint-André. In September 1914, shortly after the beginning of the First World War, he began his studies at the Collège Saint-Louis, a Jesuit high school. In February 1917, the Simenon family moved to a former post office building in the Amercoeur neighbourhood. June 1919 saw another move, this time to the rue de l'Enseignement, again back in the Outremeuse neighbourhood. Using his father's heart condition as a pretext, Simenon decided to put an end to his studies in June 1918, not even taking the Collège Saint-Louis' year-end exams. He subsequently worked a number of very short-term odd jobs. In January 1919, the 15-year-old Simenon took a job at the Gazette de Liège, a newspaper edited by Joseph Demarteau. While Simenon's own beat only covered unimportant human interest stories, it afforded him an opportunity to explore the seamier side of the city, including politics, bars, and cheap hotels but also crime, police investigations and lectures on police technique by the criminologist Edmond Locard. Simenon's experience at the Gazette also taught him the art of quick editing. He wrote more than 150 articles under the pen name "G. Sim." He began submitting stories to Le Matin in the early 1920s. ... Source: Article "Georges Simenon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The Man from London
(Novel)
Red Lights
(Novel)
Maigret Sets a Trap
(Novel)
Monsieur Hire
(Novel)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
(Novel)
In All Innocence
(Novel)
Magnet of Doom
(Novel)
The Hatter's Ghost
(Novel)
Maigret Sees Red
(Novel)
Temptation Harbour
(Novel)
Forbidden Fruit
(Writer)
La Fuite de monsieur Monde
(Novel)
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
(Novel)
Hotel Majestic
(Novel)
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
(Novel)
Maigret at the Pigalle
(Story)
The Truth About Bebe Donge
(Novel)
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
(Novel)
The President
(Novel)
The Stowaway
(Novel)
Obavy komisaře Maigreta
(Novel)
Maigret
(Novel)
The House by the Canal
(Novel)
Stranger in the House
(Novel)
The Resurrection of the Beast
(Novel)
その手にのるな
(Novel)
Stranger in the House
(Novel)
The Green Shutters
(Novel)
Sette piccole croci
(Novel)
Madrid, 1987
(Dialogue)
Marie of the Port
(Novel)
Strangers in the House
(Novel)
The Stain on the Snow
(Novel)
The Widow Couderc
(Novel)
Die Katze
(Novel)
Annette and the Blonde Woman
(Novel)
El pasajero clandestino
(Novel)
The Saint-Fiacre Affair
(Novel)
Vzpurní svědkové
(Novel)
Cecile Is Dead
(Novel)
Betty
(Novel)
Les clients d'Avrenos
(Novel)
Belle
(Novel)
The Bottom of the Bottle
(Novel)
Three Rooms in Manhattan
(Novel)
Youth on Fire
(Novel)
The Blue Room
(Novel)
The Last Train
(Novel)
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
(Novel)
The Passion of Slow Fire
(Novel)
A Life in the Balance
(Novel)
Seven Days After the Murder
(Novel)
The Brothers Rico
(Novel)
The Black Ball
(Novel)
In Case of Bad Luck
(Novel)
The Death of Auguste
(Novel)
The Iron Stairs
(Novel)
Jusqu'à l'enfer
(Novel)
Monsieur Joseph
(Novel)
La trappola di Maigret
(Novel)
L'ombra cinese
(Novel)
The Teddy Bear
(Novel)
Panic
(Novel)
Enter Inspector Maigret
(Novel)
Der Mann aus London
(Novel)
The Cat
(Novel)
Stranger in the House
(Novel)
Equator
(Novel)
The North Star
(Novel)
Der Mörder
(Novel)
The Price of Head
(Novel)
The Blue Room
(Novel)
La Californie
(Novel)
The Baron of the Locks
(Novel)
Stain on the Snow
(Novel)
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
(Novel)
Emile's Boat
(Novel)
Maigret Leads the Investigation
(Novel)
Midnight Episode
(Novel)
Blood to the Head
(Novel)
The Yellow Dog
(Screenplay)
The Yellow Dog
(Novel)
Last Refuge
(Novel)
Un'ombra su Maigret
(Novel)
Majestic Hotel Cellars
(Novel)
A Man's Neck
(Novel)
The House of the Seven Maidens
(Novel)
The London Man
(Novel)
Picpus
(Novel)
Barrio
(Novel)
Maigret
(Novel)
Midnight in Paris
(Novel)
Night at the Crossroads
(Novel)
Cecile is Dead
(Novel)
Maigret and the Old Lady
(Novel)
Maigret and the Man on the Bench
(Novel)
Maigret Hesitates
(Novel)
Maigret and the Man on the Bench
(Novel)
Seven Crosses in a Notebook
(Story)
The Family Rico
(Novel)
Love Is My Profession
(Novel)
Tangier Cop
(Novel)
Maigret and the Dead Lover
(Novel)
Maigret at the Pigalle
(Book)
Les Innocents
(Novel)
Full House
(Short Story)
The Accomplices
(Novel)
Maigretův první případ
(Novel)
Sonntag
(Novel)
Cizinci v domě
(Novel)
Maigret at Bay
(Novel)
Maigret
(Book)
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
(Novel)
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
(Novel)
Maigret
(Novel)
Maigret
(Creator)
Maigret
(Novel)
Maigret
(Novel)
Maigret
(Novel)
Maigret is with the Minister
(Novel)
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
(Novel)
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
(Novel)
Thirteen Against Fate
(Writer)
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
(Writer)
Maigret
(Writer)
Maigret
(Novel)
BBC Play of the Month
(Novel)
Der kleine Doktor
(Creator)
Maigret
(Creator)
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
(Creator)
Maigret
(Creator)
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
(Creator)
Maigret
(Creator)
Maigret
(Creator)