Georges Simenon
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 office at an insurance company and had married Henriette in April 1902. Although Simenon was born on Friday 13 February 1903, superstition resulted in his birth being registered as having been on the 12th. This story of his birth is recounted at the beginning of his novel Pedigree.
The Simenon family traces its origins back to Belgian Limburg. Simenon could trace his line back to peasants living in the area since as early as 1580. His mother had origins from Limburg, the Netherlands and Germany while his father was of Walloon origin. One of his mother's most notorious ancestors was Gabriel Brühl, a criminal who preyed on Limburg from the 1720s until he was hanged in 1743. Later, Simenon would use Brühl as one of his many pen names.
In April 1905, two years after Simenon's birth, the family moved to 3 rue Pasteur (now 25 rue Georges Simenon) in Liège's Outremeuse neighbourhood. Simenon's brother Christian was born in September 1906 and eventually became their mother's favourite child, much to Simenon's chagrin. Later, in February 1911, the Simenons moved to 53 rue de la Loi, also in the Outremeuse. In this larger home, the Simenons were able to take in lodgers. Typical among them were apprentices and students of various nationalities, giving the young Simenon an important introduction to the wider world; this marked his novels, notably Pedigree and Le Locataire.
At the age of three, Simenon learned to read at the Saint-Julienne nursery school. Then, between 1908 and 1914, he attended the Institut Saint-André. In September 1914, shortly after the beginning of the First World War, he began his studies at the Collège Saint-Louis, a Jesuit high school.
In February 1917, the Simenon family moved to a former post office building in the Amercoeur neighbourhood. June 1919 saw another move, this time to the rue de l'Enseignement, again back in the Outremeuse neighbourhood.
Using his father's heart condition as a pretext, Simenon decided to put an end to his studies in June 1918, not even taking the Collège Saint-Louis' year-end exams. He subsequently worked a number of very short-term odd jobs.
In January 1919, the 15-year-old Simenon took a job at the Gazette de Liège, a newspaper edited by Joseph Demarteau. While Simenon's own beat only covered unimportant human interest stories, it afforded him an opportunity to explore the seamier side of the city, including politics, bars, and cheap hotels but also crime, police investigations and lectures on police technique by the criminologist Edmond Locard. Simenon's experience at the Gazette also taught him the art of quick editing. He wrote more than 150 articles under the pen name "G. Sim." He began submitting stories to Le Matin in the early 1920s. ...
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Fotos
Películas (116)
Maigret and the Dead Lover
2026 · Novel
Belle
2025 · Novel
The Green Shutters
2022 · Novel
Maigret
2022 · Novel
The Death of Auguste
2015 · Novel
The Iron Stairs
2015 · Novel
The Black Ball
2015 · Novel
The Blue Room
2014 · Novel
The Accomplices
2013 · Novel
Madrid, 1987
2012 · Dialogue
Jusqu'à l'enfer
2009 · Novel
In Case of Bad Luck
2009 · Novel
The Man from London
2008 · Novel
Die Katze
2007 · Novel
Monsieur Joseph
2007 · Novel
Les Innocents
2006 · Novel
La Californie
2006 · Novel
La Fuite de monsieur Monde
2004 · Novel
L'ombra cinese
2004 · Novel
La trappola di Maigret
2004 · Novel
Red Lights
2004 · Novel
The House by the Canal
2003 · Novel
The Blue Room
2002 · Novel
Federico Fellini's Autobiography
2000 · Self (archive footage)
In All Innocence
1998 · Novel
Maigret et le Liberty Bar
1997 · Writer, Screenplay
Stranger in the House
1997 · Novel
Tangier Cop
1997 · Novel
Les clients d'Avrenos
1996 · Novel
El pasajero clandestino
1995 · Novel
The Teddy Bear
1994 · Novel
Hostages of Fear
1994 · Novel
The Price of Head
1992 · Novel
Stranger in the House
1992 · Novel
Seven Days After the Murder
1992 · Novel
Betty
1992 · Novel
Maigretův první případ
1991 · Novel
Cizinci v domě
1990 · Novel
Ein anderer Liebhaber
1990 · Writer
Quartier nègre
1990 · Novel
Monsieur Hire
1989 · Novel
Maigret
1988 · Novel
Sonntag
1985 · Novel
Equator
1983 · Novel
Vzpurní svědkové
1983 · Novel
Seven Crosses in a Notebook
1983 · Story
Maigret Hesitates
1983 · Novel
The Hatter's Ghost
1982 · Novel
The North Star
1982 · Novel
Maigret and the Man on the Bench
1981 · Novel
Der Mörder
1979 · Novel
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
1977 · Novel
Maigret and the Old Lady
1974 · Novel
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974 · Novel
The Last Train
1973 · Novel
Maigret and the Man on the Bench
1973 · Novel
Youth on Fire
1972 · Novel
The Family Rico
1972 · Novel
Der Mann aus London
1971 · Novel
The Widow Couderc
1971 · Novel
The Cat
1971 · Novel
Maigret en vacances
1971 · Writer
Obavy komisaře Maigreta
1971 · Novel
The Resurrection of the Beast
1969 · Novel
Maigret at Bay
1969 · Novel
Hotel Majestic
1968 · Novel
Stranger in the House
1967 · Novel
Maigret at the Pigalle
1966 · Story, Book
Enter Inspector Maigret
1966 · Novel
Three Rooms in Manhattan
1965 · Novel
Un'ombra su Maigret
1964 · Novel
Magnet of Doom
1963 · Novel
Maigret Sees Red
1963 · Novel
The Saint-Fiacre Affair
1963 · Novel
Emile's Boat
1962 · Novel
The Passion of Slow Fire
1961 · Novel
The President
1961 · Novel
Liberty Bar
1960 · Novel
The Baron of the Locks
1960 · Novel
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959 · Novel
Love Is My Profession
1958 · Novel
The Stowaway
1958 · Novel
その手にのるな
1958 · Novel
Maigret Sets a Trap
1958 · Novel
The Brothers Rico
1957 · Novel
Seven Small Crosses
1957 · Novel
Blood to the Head
1956 · Novel
The Bottom of the Bottle
1956 · Novel
Maigret Leads the Investigation
1956 · Novel
A Life in the Balance
1955 · Novel
Stain on the Snow
1953 · Novel
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
1952 · Novel
Full House
1952 · Short Story
Forbidden Fruit
1952 · Writer
The Truth About Bebe Donge
1952 · Novel
Midnight Episode
1950 · Novel
Marie of the Port
1950 · Novel
The Man on the Eiffel Tower
1949 · Novel
Last Refuge
1947 · Novel
Barrio
1947 · Novel
Temptation Harbour
1947 · Novel
Panique
1947 · Novel
Majestic Hotel Cellars
1945 · Novel
Cecile Is Dead
1944 · Novel
The London Man
1943 · Novel
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943 · Novel
Picpus
1943 · Novel
Midnight in Paris
1942 · Novel
Strangers in the House
1942 · Novel
Annette and the Blonde Woman
1942 · Novel
The House of the Seven Maidens
1942 · Novel
A Man's Head
1933 · Novel
The Yellow Dog
1932 · Novel, Screenplay
Night at the Crossroads
1932 · Novel
The Stain on the Snow
· Novel
The German Cousin
· Novel
Series (21)
Maigret
2025 · Adaptation, Creator
Maigret
2016 · Novel
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
2001 · Novel
Maigret
1992 · Novel, Creator
Maigret
1991 · Book, Creator
Maigret is with the Minister
1987 · Novel
The South Bank Show
1978
Apostrophes
1975 · Self
Der kleine Doktor
1974 · Creator
Le Grand Échiquier
1972 · Self
Cecile is Dead
1970 · Novel
Treffpunkte
1970 · Self
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
1968 · Novel, Writer
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
1967 · Novel, Creator
Thirteen Against Fate
1966 · Writer
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Novel
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
1964 · Novel, Creator
Maigret
1964 · Novel, Creator
Maigret
1960 · Creator, Novel, Writer
Monitor
1958
Cinépanorama
1956 · Self