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He wrote more than two hundred books under his own name including seventyfive jules maigret novels, for which he is best known, and more than two hundred under a series of pseudonyms. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotels atmosphere could not assimilate. He published his first book in 1931 and his last in 1972. With a scotland yard detective in tow, maigret is sent from paris to. This would include dyslexia, ms, mnd, a visual impairment or brain injury. George simenon collection opensource language english. He has published 158 books, many of them psychological novels and others in the inspector maigret series, and his work has been admired by almost all the leading french and english critics. Simenon was born on february, 1903 at the provincial town of liege in belgium. The voice of maigret and the art of the audiobook the new york. Simenon spent a good period of his life and career in the united states. Georges simenon biography georges joseph christian simenon was a prominent twentieth century belgianborn french author. His father was an accounting officer in an insurance company. The first english publication of georges simenons compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions.
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Georges simenon 190389 had, at the very least, two identities. Georges simenon 19031989 was a belgian author of crime fiction, best known for his novels featuring his character jules maigret. Georges simenon 19031989 began work as a reporter for a local newspaper at the age of sixteen, and at nineteen he moved to paris to embark on a career as a novelist. Born to desire simenon and henriette simenon, george s birth date was changed to 12 february owing to the superstition of number being an unlucky number.
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