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Georges Simenon
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer who created the fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most prolific and successful authors of the 20th century, he published around 400 novels, 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.
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culture · Belgian writer (1903–1989) · writer · novelist · journalist · photographer · author · amateur photographer · film screenwriter · crime fiction writer · also Georges Simenon, Esseddyqy Salim, Simenon
Born 13 February 1903 · Died 4 September 1989 · Q128790
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Maigret review – Gérard Depardieu is a charismatic version of Simenon’s detective
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2020· 3 entries
The Guardian: Georges Simenon webchat – his son John on his daily habits, favourite books and future adaptations
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The Guardian: 'The most boring part': why the killer didn't matter to Georges Simenon
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The Guardian: Reading group: which Georges Simenon book should we read in February?
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: The Krull House by Georges Simenon review – a dark masterpiece
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Red Barn review – David Hare turns Simenon's stormy tale into a film noir
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The Guardian: David Hare: the genius of Georges Simenon
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2008· 1 entry
The Times named Simenon the second greatest crime writer of all time after Patricia Highsmith
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2003· 1 entry
The collection La Pléiade published 21 of Simenon's novels in two volumes
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1992· 1 entry
And 1993 in which Michael Gambon starred as Maigret; there were 12 adaptations in the two series
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1989· 1 entry
Died 1989-09-04.
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1966· 1 entry
Awarded The Grand Master (1966).
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1961· 1 entry
The Simenons had decided to build a new house at Epalinges in the heights above Lausanne
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1959· 1 entry
The Stowaway (Australia, 1958), adapted from Le passager clandestin, directed by Lee Robinson and Ralph Habib
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1948· 1 entry
After Régine dropped her objections to Simenon's desire to have a wife and two lovers in his household
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1944· 1 entry
Régine discovered Simenon's long-term affair with Boule, and Simenon also confessed to his numerous other affairs
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1942· 1 entry
The French Commissariat-Géneral aux Questions Juives notified Simenon that they suspected him of being Jewish and gave him one month to prove he was not
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1940· 1 entry
A local doctor examined Simenon and diagnosed a serious heart illness, advising him to cut back on his favourite pastimes of pipe smoking, excessive eating, alcohol, and sex
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1938· 1 entry
Because, as Simenon later explained, "I was sickened by the life I was leading
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1937· 1 entry
Stated that his aim was to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947
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1935· 1 entry
The Simenons undertook a world tour which included the Americas, the Galapagos Islands, Tahiti, Australia and India
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1933· 2 entries
The Simenons visited Germany and Eastern Europe, and Simenon secured an interview with Leon Trotsky in exile in Turkey for Paris-Soir
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In order to concentrate on the literary novels he called romans durs
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1926· 1 entry
Or 1927, and became her part-time assistant and editor of Josephine Baker's Magazine
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1924· 2 entries
And returned to Paris where he and Régine found an apartment in the fashionable Place des Vosges
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Under the pseudonyms "Jean du Perry" and "Georges Simm"
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1917· 1 entry
The Simenon family moved to a former post-office building in the rue des Maraîchers
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1911· 1 entry
The Simenons moved to 53 rue de la Loi, where they took in lodgers, many of them students from Eastern Europe, Jews and political refugees
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1903· 1 entry
Born 1903-02-13.
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