Back in 1960, when he was 57, the best-selling author Georges Simenon, who has 500 novels to his name, the best-known of which are the Maigret tales, began filling a few notebooks with diary entries.
Georges Simenon was a phenomenon, a hack who became a great writer. The reverse is more common. We can all think of authors who started with high literary ambitions and ended by writing commercially ...
Paddy Kehoe surveys the best of Georges Simenon, and looks at two further issues in the mammoth 75-book Penguin paperback series of Maigret novels in translation. The celebrated writer Georges Simenon ...
New York Review Books: 560 pp., $17.95 paper In 1941, a doctor told Georges Simenon that he had two years to live. The famously prolific author eventually learned the diagnosis was wrong (he died in ...
Colin Callender’s Playground and Red Arrow Studios International are joining forces to co-develop a premium English-language returning drama series based on Georges Simenon’s classic Inspector Maigret ...
In late 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux president and publisher Mitzi Angel took the stage at the Center for Fiction’s annual gala and delivered an ode to what she called “a particular fancy of mine”: ...
Best known for his Inspector Maigret series, the Belgian-born Georges Simenon not only published almost 200 books in an awesomely prolific career. In many novels, he scaled the literary heights of his ...
Georges Simenon is probably best known for three things: creating Commissaire Maigret of the Paris police; penning over 400 novels; and apparently sleeping with 10,000 women. Le Train, first published ...
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