Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. He was one of the most popular authors of the 20th century, selling over 500 million copies of his works during his lifetime.[1] 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.[2] Gide wrote, “I consider Simenon a great novelist, the greatest perhaps, and the most truly a novelist that we have had in contemporary French literature.”[3]
Simenon's published works include 192 novels written under his own name,[4] over 200 novels written under various pseudonyms, four autobiographies and 21 volumes of memoirs.[1] He also wrote a large quantity of short fiction.
^ abMarnham, Patrick (1994). The Man Who Wasn't Maigret, a portrait of Georges Simenon. Harcourt Brace & Company. pp. 2–3. ISBN 0-15-600059-8.
^Marnham (1994). pp. 173-4
^Assouline, Pierre (2013). "VII. À la croisée d'une œuvre: Les écrivains face à Simenon". Cahiers de l'Herne (in French). 102: 221–225. « Je tiens Simenon pour un grand romancier : le plus grand peut-être et le plus vraiment romancier que nous ayons eu en littérature française aujourd'hui. »
^Alavoine, Bernard (1998). Georges Simenon, Parcours d'une œuvre (in French). Encrage Édition. p. 94. ISBN 978-2-36058-943-2.
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