Georges Simenon. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. Because his birthday was Friday the 13th, his superstitious aunt changed the date to February 12. Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. John Simenon, Georges Simenon’s son, acts as executive producer for the show. Georges Simenon, creator of the somber, pipe-smoking Paris detective Jules Maigret, pursued sex, fame and money relentlessly. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.“ Georges Simenon Interviewed in Paris Review, Summer 1955; reprinted in Malcolm Cowley (ed.) By the time he died in September 1989, Simenon had written nearly 200 novels, more than 150 novellas, several memoirs and countless short stories. Writers at Work (New York: Viking Press, 1959) p. 146. Simenon's style is deliberately simple, "since I do not write for a single language." Pipe dreams: on the trail of Maigret’s Paris Tom Downey goes in search of the French capital’s landmarks – as patrolled by Georges Simenon’s French detective Tom Downey He died in 1921. Simenon retired from writing fiction in 1974 after producing a range of novels, short stories, diaries, and other works. I had read an assortment of Maigret novels over the years but the sheer size of his backlist — 500 novels, even if many of the novels barely top 150 pages — daunted me, and those Maigrets I did read were, quite frankly, easy to digest and all the easier to forget. Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. Simenon's father was an accountant for an insurance company. After 500 Novels and 10,000 Women, Georges Simenon Has Earned His Retirement this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines.

Even now, in death, Simenon could kill other writers, making Halloween week the perfect time to honor this horror,… “Every time I find such a thing in one of my novels it is to be cut,” he said in a Paris Review interview.. Beautiful sentences are there to … Belgian detective novel writer Georges Simenon (1903 - 1989) was a writer-killing writer, the kind of writer that mama writers and daddy writers tell stories about to their baby writers in order to make them behave. As Georges Simenon edited his work, if he came across an especially beautiful sentence, he did something very odd. Simenon, Georges 1903– Simenon, a Belgian-born French novelist and short story writer, is beloved by millions of readers in thirty languages. In this interview, he discloses some of the secrets of the series. Georges Simenon was born in Liège on 13 February 1903, the first son of Désiré Simenon and Henriette Brüll. I’ve been on a Georges Simenon mini-kick lately. Simenon had a crisp, clear writing style, a strong sense of the mot juste that is admired in French writing and a genius for descriptive writing. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. He cut it. Maigret Sets A Trap and Maigret’s Dead Man are two stand-alone dramatic films featuring the legendary French fictional detective Jules Maigret, played by the globally-renowned actor Rowan Atkinson. Georges Simenon could induce this sensation like no other writer of the 20th century, except perhaps Franz Kafka in stories such as The Metamorphosis – which is a masterpiece of realistic writing. He aims at a kind of "universal vocabulary," building up action and atmosphere through careful brief touches.