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	Georges Simenon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Georges Simenon's brother Christian was born in September 1906 and eventually became their mother's favorite child, much to Georges Simenon's chagrin.
		Simenon's father died in 1922 and this served as the occasion for him to move to Paris with Régine Renchon (hereafter referred to by her nickname "Tigy"), at first living in the XVIIe Arrondissement, not far from the Boulevard des Batignolles.
		Simenon's conduct during the war is a matter of considerable controversy, with some scholars inclined to view him as having been a collaborator with the Germans while others disagree, viewing Simenon as having been an apolitical man who was essentially an opportunist, but by no means a collaborator.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Georges_Simenon (2497 words)

	Maigret - Simenon
		Simenon began working on a local newspaper at age 16, and at 19 he went to Paris determined to be successful.
		Simenon's Inspector Maigret is one of the best-known characters in detective fiction.
		Simenon's central theme is the isolated existence of the neurotic, abnormal individual.
	www.trussel.com /maig/maisim.htm (713 words)

	Georges Simenon Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Georges Simenon was born in Liège on Feb. 13, 1903.
		Simenon is above all a storyteller; his readers are immediately gripped by their desire to know "what happens next" and by the compelling atmosphere.
		Simenon's style is deliberately simple, "since I do not write for a single language." He aims at a kind of "universal vocabulary," building up action and atmosphere through careful brief touches.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/georges-simenon (589 words)

	LitWeb.net
		Simenon was born in Liège the son of an accountant for an insurance company.
		Simenon described them as sketches comparable to the sort of things a painter does for his pleasure or for preliminary studies.
		Simenon's optimism and joy in life is seen in such novels as LE PETIT SAINT (1965, The Little Saint) and LE PRÉSIDENT (1958, The Premier).
	www.biblion.com /litweb/biogs/simenon_georges.html (2762 words)

	Simenon's Inspector Maigret
		Georges Simenon was by many standards the most successful author of the 20th century, and the character he created, Inspector Jules Maigret, who made him rich and famous, ranks only after Sherlock Holmes as the world's best known fictional detective.
		Simenon was born and raised in Belgium, and while Paris was "the city" for him, the home of Maigret, he was 'an international,' a world traveler who moved often and lived for many years in France, the United States, and Switzerland.
		Because Simenon lived to be nearly 90, and left a legacy of hundreds of books — from which more than 50 films have been made, along with hundreds of television episodes — there is much to collect, to examine, to display and discuss.
	www.trussel.com /f_maig.htm (748 words)

	Georges Simenon
		Georges Simenon was born in Liège on 13 February 1903, the first son of Désiré Simenon and Henriette Brüll.
		Simenon's daughter Marie-Jo began the first of several psychiatric treatments in 1966, but ultimately in 1978 she committed suicide.
		The Bibliothèque Simenon opened in Liège in 1961, and in 1966 a statue of Commissaire Maigret was unveiled in Delfzijl, Holland.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /simenon.htm (3331 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| The unknown man
		Simenon claimed it was impossible for him to return to Paris at this point, because his son was about to be born.
		Simenon wrote: "At this moment, if I were a French national, it is probable that I'd yield to the temptation to sign the 121 Manifesto." This reads like a convenient way of giving oneself liberal credentials without risking any of the penalties.
		Simenon's career never ceased to flourish, and the number of television and film companies queueing up to adapt his work has never abated.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/crime/story/0,6000,990441,00.html (1567 words)

	Georges Simenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Georges Simenon is one of the most significant figures in 20th century European literature.
		Simenon’s remarkable fictional output comprises over 400 novels, 200 of which were written under various pseudonyms.
		According to Georges Simenon, the character of Jules Maigret came to him one afternoon in a café in the small Dutch port of Delfzijl as he wrestled with writing a different sort of detective novel.
	www.chorion.co.uk /chorion/brand/simenon (354 words)

	GEORGES SIMENON: first editions, manuscript and typescripts in Paris
		"The greatest of all" according to André Gide, Georges Simenon was born in 1903 in Liège (Belgium).
		In 1945, Georges Simenon met the man who was later to become his only editor : Sven Nielsen, the director of the Presses de la Cité.
		Georges Simenon rarely signed his typescripts and this one is the oldest that we know of.
	www.nieuwsbank.nl /en/2003/06/24/r001.htm (1471 words)

	MAIGRET NOVELS BY GEORGES SIMENON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Georges Simenon was the most successful author in the world in the 1960s.
		Maigret and Inspector Pyke leave the greyness of Paris for the sunshine of Porquerolles where Simenon creates a wonderfully evocative atmosphere of the square and cafe, the brilliant sea, the humidity in the air and the life and individuality of each of the inhabitants on the small island.
		Simenon wrote over 50 novels in the Maigret series, each providing the world-weary, pipe-smoking detective with an interesting murder which he solves with an unusual method of investigation, relying on experience, intuition and ruthlessness.
	www.twbooks.co.uk /crimescene/PenguinSimenon.html (859 words)

	Georges Simenon - Penguin UK Authors - Penguin UK
		Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was born on 12 February 1903 in Liege, Belgium.
		Although Simenon is best known in Britain as the writer of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels made him a household name and institution in Continental Europe, where much of his work is constantly in print.
		Simenon died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
	www.penguin.co.uk /nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,0_1000029978.html?syn=BIO (165 words)

	WEBORGERS -The Belgian Writers
		In the midst of the craze for detective novels in Europe, all influenced by the British authors, Simenon on his side staged Maigret as a simple man with great intuitions, a French police Commissaire (Chief Inspector) that was successful by his own way to observe people and their reactions.
		Simenon was a discrete womanizer as revealed in his memoirs, but he paid a lot of attention to his family.
		There is also a Simenon's typical world, maybe more apparent in his literary novels and theater plays: it can be from somber to morbid in a set-up with characters close to psychoses.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Cafe/2877/writers/writers.html (1487 words)

	NYRB: Georges Simenon
		Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium.
		In The Strangers in the House, Georges Simenon, master chronicler of the dark side of the human heart, gives us a detective story that is also a tale of an improbable redemption.
		Red Lights, one of Simenon's roman durs, is a dark and brilliant gaze at marriage, and is Simenon writing the American psyche at his best.
	www.nybooks.com /nyrb/authors/9712 (341 words)

	Brasserie Dauphine - Georges Simenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Se siete bloccati dalla pioggia mentre siete accampati in Africa, non c'è niente di meglio di Simenon.
		I Simenon buoni sono magari tre su cinque, ma quando piove un drogato della lettura si accontenta anche di quelli brutti, e io li avrei cominciati tutti, dividendo i buoni dai cattivi.
		Con Simenon non esistono vie di mezzo, e allora selezionai cinque o sei libri e scelsi le pagine che sarei stato felice di leggere, in modo da far ricadere tutti i miei problemi su Maigret.
	www.brasseriedauphine.com (300 words)

	Georges Simenon - Red Lights -- New York Magazine Book Review
		Georges Simenon (1903—1989) was the twentieth century’s Balzac.
		Simenon, who never outlined his plots in advance, generates continuous tension by keeping a novel’s several possible outcomes immanent until the last page or so.
		Simenon also practices a radical economy of language, using almost no adjectives or adverbs—his white space is more expressive than much of Hemingway and all of Raymond Carver.
	newyorkmetro.com /arts/books/reviews/17647 (947 words)

	Maigret
		Georges Simenon, Maigret and The Apparition (Harcourt Harvest, 1980)
		Georges Simenon, Maigret and The Spinster (Harcourt Harvest, 1982)
		Simenon is a great writer when it comes to creating both characters and the action around those characters, or at least the translators all did a good job of making their versions work well.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_simenon_maigretomni.html (920 words)

	Georges Simenon and 'Maigret' by Crispin Jackson
		Georges Joseph Simenon was born ten minutes after twelve on the night of 12th February 1903 in the Belgian city of Liège.
		What brought Simenon — or 'Georges Sim', as he was still known — to the attention of the public was not so much his skill as his extraordinary energy as a writer.
		Simenon decided to "launch Maigret" in style, with a massive bal anthropométrique (named after the police department where suspects were stripped naked, measured and photographed), held in a Montparnasse nightclub, La Boule Blanche, on 20 February 1931.
	www.trussel.com /maig/crispin.htm (3056 words)

	British Realists, Simenon and Matsumoto
		Simenon's characters are often middle class, just as in the realists.
		Simenon's non-mystery works in which guilty people are psychologically pursued by their crimes perhaps owe something to the inverted detective stories of which the British realists were so fond.
		The film director Akira Kurosawa was a big fan of Simenon, and he reportedly wrote his detective movie Stray Dog (1949) first as a novel, before shooting it as a film.
	members.aol.com /MG4273/coles.htm (17001 words)

	Mystery Guide - Maigret's Pipe by Georges Simenon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The reader becomes familiar with the facts of the case as Maigret does, and learns of a small cast of characters, usually intimates or relations of each other, all of whom are potential suspects.
		The character of Maigret is well-developed and invites affection -- an inveterate pipe-smoker and fond of his beer and Calvados, he is devotedly married, settled in his habits, and very unpretentious, especially given his fame and exalted position.
		The only warning I have is that Simenon may not date terribly well -- the pace of these stories ranges from the leisurely to the ponderous, and to some readers Maigret's easy wisdom and comfortable life may translate simply as complacency and privilege.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkSimenonPipe.html (383 words)

	Sotheby's - Services & Information - Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		COMING FROM THE COLLECTION OF J.-M. At the time of the centenary celebrations of Georges Simenon's birth, Sotheby's will offer for sale one of the most famous collections of works by the celebrated novelist.
		After a time of reflection during which he would write on a yellow envelope the names of the protagonists and some details of the story, he would begin writing the novel itself — “il est en roman” as he would say himself.
		Finally, one of the few copies that are left of Le Fils Cardinaud, written prior to WWII, is also on sale, estimated at 25, 000/35, 000 euros.
	www.shareholder.com /bid/news/20030612-111235.cfm (1459 words)

	Simenon Georges Joseph Christian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Simenon Georges Joseph Christian - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Simenon, Georges Joseph Christian, principal pseudonym of Georges Sim (1903-1989), Belgian-French novelist, born in Liège.
		More MSN Search results on "Simenon Georges Joseph Christian"
	encarta.msn.com /Simenon_Georges_Joseph_Christian.html (42 words)

	az eyes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Several Maigret mysteries by Georges Simenon appeared a few years ago on PBS's Mystery.
		Played by Michael Gambon, the Paris detective seemed quirky and brilliant, sort of a mix between Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot, with a bit of heartlessness mixed in.
		You come away from Simenon's world feeling that if you were in trouble, you'd want Maigret on your side.
	blog.azeyes.net /blog/_archives/2006/5/3/1929189.html (270 words)

	Magdalen Nabb - Exclusive Interview - Part Four - Georges Simenon - italian-mysteries.com
		What a pleasure it is to wander with you through the streets of Florence, with their carabinieri, working people, trattorie, even their noisy tourists.
		Although the cast of characters is large, they are so well etched in a few words that their comings and goings are easily followed.
		An acquaintance of mine who knew about the Simenon letters got herself a commission to write an article about them for the Herald Tribune without consulting me. I was very upset about it.
	italian-mysteries.com /nabb-interview-part04.html (1142 words)

	Lock 14 - Georges Simenon - Penguin Group (USA)
		One of the world's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers around the world since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret.
		Seventy-five years later, the incomparable Maigret mysteries make their Penguin debut with three of his most compelling cases.
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	us.penguingroup.com /nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143037279,00.html (131 words)

	Simenon, Georges 1903 books, find the lowest prices
		Simenon, Georges 1903 books, find the lowest prices
		by Georges Simenon, Daphne Woodward (Translator), Robert Eglesfield (Translator)
		The Mystery of Georges Simenon : A Biography
	www.allbookstores.com /Simenon_Georges_1903_p4st.html (174 words)

	Le Centre d'études Georges Simenon et le Fonds Simenon de l'Université de Liège (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Le Centre d'études Georges Simenon et le Fonds Simenon de l'Université de Liège
		C'est en 1976 qu'a été créé à l'Université de Liège, sous l'impulsion du Professeur Maurice PIRON, le Centre d'études Georges Simenon qui s'est donné pour objectif de développer les études concernant le romancier et son œuvre, de rassembler toute la documentation utile et d'aider les chercheurs dans leur démarche.
		Touché par l'intérêt qui lui était manifesté, Georges Simenon a décidé de faire don à ce centre d'études de toutes ses archives littéraires: c'est ainsi qu'est né ce qu'on appelle communément le Fonds Simenon
	www.libnet.ulg.ac.be /simenon.htm (126 words)

	Georges Simenon — Infoplease.com
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		Simenon visto a traves de Maigret: la mejor manera de conocer a Georges Simenon, en el centenario de su nacimiento, es aplicarle el......
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0845276.html (211 words)

	Georges Simenon Life Stories, Books, & Links
		On this day in 1989 Georges Simenon died at the age of eighty-six.
		Most accounts of Simenon's writing life begin with the numbers: some 500 books published, seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories in the world-famous Inspector Maigret series, a daily output sometimes as high as eighty pages, total sales sometimes figured as high as 1.5 billion.
		The TinL masthead features photography by Natasha D'Schommer, and the book art featured is by Jim Rosenau.
	www.todayinliterature.com /biography/georges.simenon.asp (131 words)

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