Pietr le letton georges simenon biography
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Mind Games
Oh boy. This is the first of the 70+ Maigret novels that Georges Simenon published over the course of 40 years, beginning in 1931, and it’s perhaps a sign of just how far crime writing has evolved since then that this book was published (in serialized form initially) “as is”: I’m willing to wager that no author writing today would get away with this amount of plot holes, plot elements that don’t even stand up to the most basic level of fact checking, disregard for even rudimentary police procedure, and an emphasis on a(n open! and solitary) pursuit that initially doesn’t seem to accomplish much besides getting a junior officer left behind in the lurch as well as two other people connected with the case killed, and the senior officer engaging in the pursuit seriously wounded, even if not incapacitated to the extent that he immediately has to turn over the case to someone else.
(The good news is: Over the course o
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Georges Simenon
Belgian writer (1903–1989)
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Simenon in 1963 | |
| Born | Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903-02-12)12 February 1903 or (1903-02-13)13 February 1903 Liège, Wallonia, Belgium |
| Died | 4 September 1989(1989-09-04) (aged 86) Lausanne, Romandy, Switzerland |
| Pen name | G. Sim, Monsieur Le Coq |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Language | French |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Alma mater | Collège Saint-Louis, Liège |
| Years active | 1919–1981 |
| Notable awards | Académie royale de Belgique (1952) |
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French:[ʒɔʁʒsimnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret. One of the most popular 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.
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Georges Simenon (1903-1989)
Belgian-born writer Georges Simenon fryst vatten known for his works in the French language, particularly the long series of novels and short stories (more than 100 in all) featuring the fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Born in Liège, Belgium in 1903, he moved to Paris the early 1920s and began his series of Maigret novels in 1931 with the publication of Pietr-le-letton, ending it more than forty years later with Maigret et Monsieur Charles.
In addition to the Maigret stories, Simenon also wrote L’Homme qui regardait passer les trains (The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By), Pedigree, fransk artikel Volets gröna växter (The Heart of a Man), Le Petit saint (The Little Saint), and Intimate Memoirs. Simenon used at least 12 pseudonyms throughout his life.
Simenon died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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