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Georges Simenon

Also known as Esseddyqy Salim

Belgian writer (1903–1986)

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Georges Simenon was a Belgian writer who lived from 1903 to 1986 and became famous for creating the detective character Inspector Maigret and writing numerous crime novels and psychological thrillers. His prolific output and influential contributions to the detective and crime fiction genres made him one of the most widely read authors of the 20th century.

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Person · Open Library

Born: February 13, 1903
Died: September 4, 1989
Works: 1228

Top works

Great Tales of Crime and Detection
Maigret aux Assises
Collection trio
La nuit du carrefour
The iron staircase

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Film & TV

Writing · Liège, Belgium

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…

Known for

Federico Fellini's Autobiography — Self (archive footage)2000
Apostrophes — Self1975
Le Grand Échiquier — Self1972
Treffpunkte — Self1970
Cinépanorama — Self1956

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Belgium
Active from: 1903
Active to: 1989

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 756
Total plays: 24,029

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

2018 ESC/ESH Guidelines for the management of arterial hypertension
· 2018 · cited 8,155x
Dynamical mean-field theory of strongly correlated fermion systems and the limit of infinite dimensions
· 1996 · cited 6,357x
Preexposure Chemoprophylaxis for HIV Prevention in Men Who Have Sex with Men
· 2010 · cited 4,340x
Host–microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease
· 2012 · cited 4,247x
Global incidence, prevalence, years lived with disability (YLDs), disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs), and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 371 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 4,097x

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Quotes

“Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.”
“The fact that we are I don't know how many millions of people, yet communication, complete communication, is completely impossible between two of those people, is to me one of the biggest tragic themes in the world.”
“Fellini, je crois que, dans ma vie, j'ai été plus Casanova que vous! J'ai fait le calcul, il ya un an ou deux. J’ai eu dix mille femmes depuis l’âge de treize ans et demi. Ce n’ést pas du tout un vice. Je n’ai aucun vice sexuel, mais j’avais besoin de communiquer.”
“I never read contemporary fiction – with one exception: the works of Simenon concerned with Inspector Maigret.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: GeorgesSimenon-StudioHarcourt-1952.png

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Commons category: Georges Simenon
date of death: 1989-09-04
birth name: Georges Joseph Christian Simenon
start of work period: 1919-00-00
end of work period: 1981-00-00
floruit: 1932-01-01
date of birth: 1903-02-13
P12674: ZIP code
pseudonym: G. Legros Jaques
P12749: 222 Lucia

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Georges Joseph Christian Simenon ( French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) 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 (including 192 under his own name), 21 volumes of memoirs and many short stories, selling over 500 million copies.

Apart from his detective fiction, he achieved critical acclaim for his literary novels, which he called romans durs (hard novels). Among his literary admirers were Max Jacob, François Mauriac and André Gide. Gide wrote, “I consider Simenon a great novelist, perhaps the greatest, and the most genuine novelist that we have had in contemporary French literature.”