Georges Simenon

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃ ]; 13

February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific
Georges Simenon
author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works,
Simenon is best known as the creator of the fictional detective Jules
Maigret.

Contents
Early life and education
Career beginnings
In France, 1922–1945
In the United States and Canada, 1945–1955
Return to Europe, 1955–1989
Works
Partial bibliography Simenon in 1963
Film adaptations Born 13 February 1903
Stage adaptations Liège, Belgium
Died 4 September 1989
References
(aged 86)
Further reading Lausanne,
Biographies Switzerland
External links Pen name "G. Sim"
Occupation Novelist
Notable Académie royale de
Early life and education awards Belgique (1952)

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[1] superstition resulted in his birth
being registered as having been on the 12th.[2] This story of his birth is recounted at the beginning of his
novel Pedigree.

The Simenon family traces its origins back to the Limburg region, his mother's family being from Dutch
Limburg. His mother had origins from both the Netherlands and Germany while his father was of Walloon
origins.[3] One of her more 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.[4]

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, back in the Outremeuse
neighbourhood. 26 rue Léopold, Liège, the
house where Simenon was
Using his father's heart condition as a pretext, Simenon decided to put an born
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.

Career beginnings
In January 1919, the 15-year-old Simenon took a job at the Gazette de Liège,[3] 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.[5]

Simenon's first novel, Au Pont des Arches, was written in June 1919 and published in 1921 under his "G.
Sim" pseudonym. Writing as "Monsieur Le Coq", he also published more than 800 humorous pieces
between November 1919 and December 1922. He stopped writing for the Gazette in December 1922.[3]

During this period, Simenon's familiarity with nightlife, prostitutes, drunkenness and carousing increased.
The people he rubbed elbows with included anarchists, bohemian artists and even two future murderers, the
latter appearing in his novel Les Trois crimes de mes amis. He also frequented a group of artists known as
"La Caque". While not really involved in the group, he did meet his future wife Régine Renchon through it.

From 1921 to 1934 he used a total of 17 pen names while writing 358 novels and short stories.[5]

In France, 1922–1945
Simenon's father died in 1922 and this served as the occasion for the author to move to Paris with Régine
Renchon (hereafter referred to by her nickname "Tigy"), at first living in the 17th arrondissement, not far
from the Boulevard des Batignolles. He became familiar with the city, its bistros, cheap hotels, bars and
restaurants. More important, he also came to know ordinary working-class Parisians. Writing under
numerous pseudonyms, he found his creativity beginning to pay financial dividends.

Simenon and Tigy returned briefly to Liège in March 1923 to marry. Despite his Catholic upbringing,
Simenon was not a believer. Tigy came from a thoroughly non-religious family. However, Simenon's mother
insisted on a church wedding, forcing Tigy to become a nominal convert, learning the Catholic Church's
catechism. Despite their father's lack of religious convictions, all of Simenon's children would be baptised as
Catholics. Marriage to Tigy, however, did not prevent Simenon from having liaisons with numerous other
women, perhaps most famously, Josephine Baker.

A reporting assignment had Simenon on a lengthy sea voyage in 1928, giving him a taste for boating. In
1929, he decided to have a boat built, the Ostrogoth. Simenon, Tigy, their cook and housekeeper Henriette
Liberge, and their dog Olaf lived on board the Ostrogoth, travelling the French canal system. Henriette
Liberge, known as "Boule" (literally "Ball," a reference to her slight pudginess) was romantically involved
with Simenon for the next several decades and would remain a close friend of the family, really part of it.[6]

In 1930, the most famous character invented by Simenon, Commissaire

Maigret,[7] made his first appearance in a piece in Detective written at
Joseph Kessel's request. This first ever Maigret detective story was written
while boating in The Netherlands, particularly in and around the Dutch town
of Delfzijl. A statue of Maigret in Delfzijl is a perpetual reminder of this.

1932 saw Simenon travel extensively, sending back reports from Africa,
eastern Europe, Turkey, and the Soviet Union. A trip around the world
followed in 1934 and 1935.

Between 1932 and 1936, Simenon, Tigy, and Boule lived at La Richardière,
a 16th-century manor house in Marsilly at the Charente-Maritime
département. The house is evoked in Simenon's novel Le Testament
Donadieu. At the beginning of 1938, he rented the villa Agnès in La Maigret statue in Delfzijl,
Rochelle, and published Le Suspect, and then, in August, purchased a farm Netherlands
house in Nieul-sur-Mer (also in the Charente-Maritime) where his and Tigy's
only child, Marc, was born in 1939.

Simenon lived in the Vendée during the Second World War.[2] 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. Further confusion stems from the fact that he was denounced as
a collaborator by local farmers while at the same time the Gestapo suspected him of being Jewish,
apparently conflating the names "Simenon" and "Simon". In any case, Simenon was under investigation at
the end of the war because he had negotiated film rights of his books with German studios during the
occupation and in 1950 was sentenced to a five-year period during which he was forbidden to publish any
new work. This sentence, however, was kept from the public and had little practical effect.

The war years did see Simenon produce a number of important works, including Le Testament Donadieu, Le
Voyageur de la Toussaint and Le Cercle des Mahé. He also conducted important correspondence, most
notably with André Gide. His novel La Veuve Couderc was published in 1945 at about the same time as
Camus' The Stranger. Both novels contain a similar main character and themes, and Simenon was upset that
Camus' work went on to greater acclaim.[8]

Also in the early 1940s, Simenon had a health scare when a local doctor misdiagnosed him with a serious
heart condition (a reminder of his father), giving him only months to live. It was also at this time that Tigy
finally realised the nature of the relationship between her husband and Boule. He and Tigy remained married
until 1949, but it was now a marriage in name only. Despite Tigy's initial protests, Boule remained with the
family.

The ambiguities of the war years notwithstanding, the city of La Rochelle eventually honoured Simenon,
naming a quay after him in 1989. Simenon was too ill to attend the dedication ceremony. However, in 2003,
his son Johnny participated in another event honouring his father.
In the United States and Canada, 1945–1955
Simenon escaped questioning in France and in 1945 arrived, along with Tigy and Marc, in North America.
He spent several months in Quebec, Canada, north of Montreal, at Domaine L'Esterel (Ste-Marguerite du
Lac Masson) where he lived in a modern-style house and wrote three novels (one of which was Three
Bedrooms in Manhattan) in one of the log cabins (LC5, still there today). Boule, due to visa difficulties, was
initially unable to join them.

During the years he spent in the United States, Simenon regularly visited New York City. He and his family
also went on lengthy car trips, traveling from Maine to Florida and then west as far as California. Simenon
lived for a short time on Anna Maria Island near Bradenton, Florida, before renting a house in Nogales,
Arizona, where Boule was finally reunited with him. His novel The Bottom of the Bottle was heavily
influenced by his stay in Nogales.

Although enchanted by the desert, Simenon decided to leave Arizona, and following a stay in California,
settled into a large house, Shadow Rock Farm, in Lakeville, Connecticut. This town forms the background
for his 1952 novel La Mort de Belle ("The Death of Belle").

While in the United States, Simenon and his son Marc learned to speak English with relative ease, as did
Boule. Tigy, however, had a great deal of trouble with the language and pined for a return to Europe.

In the meantime, Simenon had met Denyse Ouimet, a woman seventeen years his junior. Denyse, who was
originally from Montréal, met Simenon in New York City in 1945 (she was to be hired as a secretary) and
they promptly began an often stormy and unhappy relationship. After resolving numerous legal difficulties,
Simenon and Tigy were divorced in 1949. Simenon and Denyse Ouimet were then married in Reno, Nevada
in 1950 and eventually had three children, Johnny (born in 1949), Marie-Jo (born in 1953) and Pierre (born
in 1959). In accordance with the divorce agreement, Tigy continued to live in close proximity to Simenon
and their son Marc, an arrangement that continued until they all returned to Europe in 1955.

In 1952, Simenon paid a visit to Belgium and was made a member of the Académie Royale de Belgique.
Although he never resided in Belgium after 1922, he remained a Belgian citizen throughout his life.

Return to Europe, 1955–1989

Simenon and his family returned to Europe in 1955, first living in France (mainly on the Côte d'Azur) before
settling in Switzerland. After living in a rented house in Echandens, in 1963 he purchased a property in
Epalinges, north of Lausanne, where he had an enormous house constructed to his own design.[1]

Simenon and Denyse Ouimet separated definitively in 1964. Teresa, who had been hired by Simenon as a
housekeeper in 1961, had by this time become romantically involved with him and remained his companion
for the rest of his life.

His long-troubled daughter Marie-Jo committed suicide in Paris in 1978 at the age of 25,[2] an event that
darkened Simenon's later years.

The documentary film The Mirror of Maigret by director/producer John Goldschmidt was filmed at
Simenon's villa in Lausanne and was a profile of the man based on his confessional dialogue with a criminal
psychologist. The film was made for ATV and shown in the UK on the ITV Network in 1981.

Simenon underwent surgery for a brain tumor in 1984 and made a good recovery. In subsequent years
however, his health worsened. He gave his last televised interview in December 1988.
Georges Simenon died in his sleep of natural causes on the night of
4 September 1989 in Lausanne.

Simenon left such a legacy that he was honored with a silver

commemorative coin: the Belgian 100 Years of Georges Simenon
coin, minted in 2003. The obverse side shows his portrait.

In 1977 he said he had had sex with 10,000 women in the 61 years
since his 13th birthday.[2] His second wife has said the number is
closer to 1,200 women.[8]

Works
Simenon was one of the most prolific writers of the twentieth
Simenon, 1963
century, capable of writing 60 to 80 pages per day. His oeuvre
includes nearly 200 novels, over 150 novellas, several
autobiographical works, numerous articles, and scores of pulp novels
written under more than two dozen pseudonyms. Altogether, about 550 million copies of his works have
been printed.

He is best known, however, for his 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Commissaire Maigret. The first
novel in the series, Pietr-le-Letton, was serialized in 1930 and appeared in book form in 1931;[9] the last
one, Maigret and Monsieur Charles, was published in 1972. The Maigret novels were translated into all
major languages and several of them were turned into films and radio plays. Three films were made in the
late 1950s and early 1960s, starring Jean Gabin: Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case; Maigret Sets A Trap; and
Margret Sees Red. Three television series (1960–63, 1992–93 and 2016-), have been made in Great Britain
(the first with Rupert Davies in the title role, the second with Michael Gambon and the third with Rowan
Atkinson), one in Italy in four different seasons for a total of 36 episodes (1964–72) starring Gino Cervi; and
two in France: (1967–90) starring Jean Richard and (1991–2005) starring Bruno Cremer.

1942 was the year his novel La Veuve Couderc was published at around the
same time as Camus' The Stranger. Both novels contain a similar main
character and themes, and Simenon was upset that Camus' work went on to
greater acclaim.[8]

During his "American" period, Simenon reached the height of his creative
powers, and several novels of those years were inspired by the context in
which they were written (Trois chambres à Manhattan (1946), Maigret à
New York (1947), Maigret se fâche (1947)).

Simenon also wrote a large number of "psychological novels" (what the The 100 Years of Georges
French refer to as "romans durs"),[10] such as The Strangers in the House Simenon coin
(1940), La neige était sale (1948), or Le fils (1957), as well as several
autobiographical works, in particular Je me souviens (1945), Pedigree
(1948), Mémoires intimes (1981).

In 1966, Simenon was given the MWA's highest honour, the Grand Master Award.

In 2003, the collection La Pléiade (inspiration for the Library of America) has included 21 of Simenon's
novels, in two volumes. The task of selecting the novels and the preparation of the notes and analyses was
performed by two Simenon specialists, Professor Jacques Dubois, President of the Centre for Georges
Simenon Studies at the Université de Liège, and his assistant Benoît Denis.[11]
According to the UNESCO's Index Translationum, Simenon is the seventeenth-most-often-translated author,
the most-translated Belgian author.[12]

In 2005, Simenon was nominated for the title of De Grootste Belg / Le plus grand Belge (The Greatest
Belgian) in two separate television series. In the Flemish version, he ended in 77th place; and in the Walloon
version, he ended in 10th place.

Partial bibliography
The Crime at Lock 14 (1931) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118728-X)
Pietr-le-Letton (1931)
Maigret and the Yellow Dog (1931) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118734-4)
Chez Krull (1931) (Jacques Haumont, France)
The Madman of Bergerac (1932) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118726-3)
The Bar on the Seine (1932) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-102588-3)
The Window Over the Way (Les Gens d’en face, 1933) (Penguin, ASIN B000AVAANG)
The Engagement (Les Fiançailles de M. Hire, 1933) (New York Review Books Classics,
ISBN 1-59017-228-0)
Tropic Moon (tr. Stuart Gilbert: George Routledge & Sons, 1940; Penguin Books, 1952) (Coup
de Lune, 1933) (New York Review Books Classics, ISBN 1-59017-111-X)
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (L'homme qui regardait passer les trains, 1938)
(New York Review Books Classics, ISBN 1-59017-149-7)
Liberty Bar (1940) (translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury) in: Maigret Travels South. vi, 312 pp.
[with: The Madman of Bergerac]. George Routledge & Sons. London.
The Strangers in the House (Les Inconnus dans la maison, 1940) (New York Review Books
Classics, ISBN 1-59017-194-2)
The Hotel Majestic (1942) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118731-X)
The Widow (La Veuve Couderc, 1942) (New York Review Books Classics, ISBN 978-1-59017-
261-2)
Cécile is Dead (Cécile est Mort) (Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 1942; Penguin Classics, ISBN 978-
0-141-39705-4)
Inspector Cadaver (1943) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118725-5)
Monsieur Monde Vanishes (La Fuite de Monsieur Monde, 1945) (New York Review Books
Classics, ISBN 1-59017-096-2)
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (Trois Chambres à Manhattan, 1945) (New York Review Books
Classics, ISBN 1-59017-044-X)
Act of Passion (Lettre à mon juge, 1947)
Dirty Snow (La Neige était sale, 1948) (New York Review Books Classics, ISBN 1-59017-043-
1)
Pedigree (1948) (New York Review Books Classics, ISBN 978-1-59017-351-0)
My Friend Maigret (1949) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-102586-7)
The Friend of Madame Maigret (1950) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118740-9)
Maigret's Memoirs (1951) (English translation 1963, a Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, ISBN 0-15-
155148-0)
The Mystery of the Polarlys (1952) [in: In Two Latitudes], Penguin Crime (Le Passager du
Polarlys, 1932)
The Man on the Boulevard (1953) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-102590-5)
Red Lights (Feux Rouges, 1953) (New York Review Books Classics, ISBN 1-59017-193-4)
 Big Bob (1954)
A Man's Head (1955) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-102589-1)
The Rules of the Game (1955)
The Watchmaker of Everton (1955)
The Little Man from Archangel (1957) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118771-9)
Maigret has Scruples (1958) (Harcourt Inc., ISBN 0-15-655160-8)
The Train (Le Train,1958) (Melville House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-935554-46-2)
The President (Le President, 1958) (Melville House Publishing, ISBN 978-1-935554-62-2)
Inquest on Bouvet (1958) (Penguin Crime)
None of Maigret's Business (1958) (translated by Richard Brain from Maigret s'amuse,
published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company Inc., Garden City, New York, Library of
Congress Catalog Card No. 58-7367)
The Widower (1959) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, published 1982, ISBN 0-15-196644-3)
Maigret in Court (1960) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118729-8)
Maigret and the Idle Burglar (1961) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118772-7)
The Bells of Bicetre (Les Anneaux de Bicêtre', 1963)
Maigret and the Bum (1963) (Harcourt Inc., ISBN 0-15-602839-5)
Maigret and the Ghost (1964) (Penguin Classics UK, ISBN 0-14-118727-1)
The Little Saint (1965) Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. LCCPD 65-21035
The Prison
The Cat (1967) (translation: Bernard Frechtman, Hamish Hamilton Great Britain)
Maigret Takes the Waters (1968) Hamish Hamilton & Harcourt Brace (translation Eileen
Ellenbogen, 1969)
Maigret's Boyhood Friend (1968) (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., translation Eileen
Ellenbogen, 1970)
The Man on the Bench in the Barn (La Main, 1968)
The Disappearance of Odile (1971) (translation 1972, Lyn Moir, Hamish Hamilton, Great
Britain)
Maigret and Monsieur Charles (1972) (translation 1973, Marianne Alexandre Sinclair, Hamish
Hamilton Great Britain)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1977) (Hamilton, United States ISBN 0-241-89681-9
ISBN 9780241896815) - The Bottom of the Bottle was originally published by Signet New York
in 1954.
The 13 Culprits (Crippen & Landru, 2002) (translated by Peter Schulman)

Film adaptations
Simenon's work has been widely adapted to cinema and television. He is credited on at least 171
productions.[13] Notable films include:

Night at the Crossroads (La Nuit du Carrefour, France, 1932), written and directed by Jean
Renoir, starring Pierre Renoir as Maigret
The Yellow Dog (Le Chien jaune, France, 1932), directed by Jean Tarride, starring Abel Tarride
as Maigret
A Man's Neck (France, 1933), directed by Julien Duvivier, starring Harry Baur as Maigret
La Maison des sept jeunes filles (France, 1942), directed by Albert Valentin
Annette and the Blonde Woman (Annette et la dame blonde, France, 1942), adapted by Henri
Decoin, directed by Jean Dréville
The Strangers in the House (Les Inconnus dans la Maison, France, 1942), adapted by Henri-
Georges Clouzot & Henri Decoin, directed by Henri Decoin
Monsieur La Souris (France, 1942), directed by Georges Lacombe
Picpus (France, 1943), directed by Richard Pottier, starring Albert Préjean as Maigret
Traveler on All Saints' Day (Le Voyageur de la Toussaint, France, 1943), directed by Louis
Daquin
The Man from London (L'Homme de Londres, France, 1943), directed by Henri Decoin
Cecile Is Dead (Cécile est morte, France 1944), adapted by Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Michel
Duran, directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Albert Préjean as Maigret
Majestic Hotel Cellars (Les Caves du Majestic, France, 1945), directed by Richard Pottier,
starring Albert Préjean as Maigret
Panic (Panique, France, 1947), adapted from Les Fiançailles de M. Hire, directed by Julien
Duvivier
Temptation Harbour (UK, 1947), adapted from L'Homme de Londres (Newhaven-Dieppe),
directed by Lance Comfort
Last Refuge (Dernier Refuge, France, 1947), adapted from Le Locataire, directed by Marc
Maurette
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949), adapted from La Tête d'un homme, directed by Burgess
Meredith, starring Charles Laughton as Maigret
La Marie du port (France, 1950), directed by Marcel Carné
Midnight Episode (UK, 1950), adapted from Monsieur La Souris, directed by Gordon Parry
La Vérité sur Bébé Donge (France, 1952), directed by Henri Decoin
Brelan d'as (France, 1952), anthology film, directed by Henri Verneuil, starring Michel Simon
as Maigret
Forbidden Fruit (Le Fruit défendu, France, 1952), directed by Henri Verneuil
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (UK, 1952), adapted from L'Homme qui regardait passer
les trains, directed by Harold French
La neige était sale (France, 1953), directed by Luis Saslavsky
Maigret dirige l'enquête (France, 1956), adapted from Cécile est morte, directed by Stany
Cordier, starring Maurice Manson as Maigret
A Life in the Balance (1955), adapted from Sept petites croix dans un carnet, directed by Harry
Horner and Rafael Portillo
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956), adapted from Le Fond de la bouteille, directed by Henry
Hathaway
Le Sang à la tête (France, 1956), adapted from Le Fils Cardinaud, directed by Gilles Grangier
and starring Jean Gabin
The Brothers Rico (1957), directed by Phil Karlson
Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret tend un piège, France, 1958), written and directed by Jean
Delannoy, starring Jean Gabin as Maigret, Edgar Award for Best Foreign Film from the
Mystery Writers of America in 1959
The Stowaway (Australia, 1958), adapted from Le Passager clandestin, directed by Lee
Robinson and Ralph Habib
In Case of Adversity (En cas de malheur, France, 1958), directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre (France, 1959), written and directed by Jean Delannoy,
starring Jean Gabin as Maigret
Le Baron de l'écluse (France, 1960), directed by Jean Delannoy and starring Jean Gabin
Maigret (UK, TV series, 51 episodes, 1960–1963), starring Rupert Davies as Maigret
 The President (Le Président, France, 1961), directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Jean
Gabin
The Passion of Slow Fire (La Mort de Belle, France, 1961), directed by Édouard Molinaro
Emile's Boat (Le Bateau d'Émile, France, 1962), directed by Denys de La Patellière
Maigret voit rouge (France, 1963), adapted from Maigret, Lognon et les Gangsters, directed by
Gilles Grangier, starring Jean Gabin as Maigret
Magnet of Doom (L'Aîné des Ferchaux, France, 1963), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (Italy, TV series, 16 episodes, 1964–1972), starring Gino
Cervi as Maigret
Three Rooms in Manhattan (Trois Chambres à Manhattan, France, 1965), directed by Marcel
Carné
Maigret und sein größter Fall (West Germany, 1966), adapted from La Danseuse du Gai-
Moulin, directed by Alfred Weidenmann, starring Heinz Rühmann as Maigret
Maigret a Pigalle (Italy, 1966), adapted from Maigret au "Picratt's", directed by Mario Landi,
starring Gino Cervi as Maigret
Stranger in the House (UK, 1967), adapted from Les Inconnus dans la Maison, directed by
Pierre Rouve
Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (France, TV series, 88 episodes, 1967–1990), starring
Jean Richard as Maigret
Le Chat (France, 1971), directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
The Widow Couderc (La Veuve Couderc, France, 1971), directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
The Train (Le Train, France, 1971), directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
The Clockmaker (L'Horloger de Saint-Paul, France, 1974), directed by Bertrand Tavernier
Armchair Cinema: The Prison (Euston Films/Thames Television, 1974), adapted from "La
Prison"
L'Étoile du Nord (France, 1982), directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
The Hatter's Ghost (Les Fantômes du Chapelier, France, 1982), written and directed by
Claude Chabrol
Équateur (France, 1983), written and directed by Serge Gainsbourg
Monsieur Hire (France, 1989), written and directed by Patrice Leconte
Seven Days After Murder (Azerbaijan & Russia, 1991), written by Rustam Ibragimbekov,
directed by Rasim Ojagov
Maigret (France, TV series, 54 episodes, 1991–2005), starring Bruno Cremer as Maigret
Betty (France, 1992), written and directed by Claude Chabrol
El pasajero clandestino (Spain, 1995), adapted from Le Passager Clandestin, directed by
Agustí Villaronga
La Maison du canal (France and Belgium, 2003), directed by Alain Berliner
Red Lights (France, 2004), directed by Cédric Kahn
The Man from London (Hungary, 2007), written and directed by Béla Tarr
The Blue Room (France, 2014), written and directed by Mathieu Amalric
La Boule Noire (France, 2014), directed by Denis Malleval
Maigret (UK, TV series, since 2016), starring Rowan Atkinson as Maigret

Stage adaptations
The Red Barn, written by David Hare and based on the novel La Main (English title The Man
on the Bench in the Barn). Directed by Robert Icke at the Lyttelton Theatre, London, in October
2016.[14][15]
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Further reading

Biographies
Bresler, Fenton (1987). The Mystery of Georges Simenon: A Biography. New York: Stein &
Day. ISBN 0812862414.
Assouline, Pierre (1992). Simenon: A Biography (https://archive.org/details/simenonbiography
00asso). New York: Knopf. ISBN 0679402853.
 Marnham, Patrick (1993). The Man who wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon. New
York: Farrar Straus & Giroux. ISBN 0374201714.

External links
Carvel Collins (Summer 1955). "Georges Simenon, The Art of Fiction No. 9" (http://www.thepar
isreview.org/interviews/5020/the-art-of-fiction-no-9-georges-simenon). The Paris Review.
Centre d'études Georges Simenon et Fonds Simenon de l'Université de Liège (https://web.arc
hive.org/web/20030201135752/http://www.ulg.ac.be/libnet/simenon.htm)
Petri Liukkonen. "Georges Simenon" (http://authorscalendar.info/simenon.htm). Books and
Writers
Simenon's Inspector Maigret (http://www.trussel.com/f_maig.htm) - Includes complete
bibliography and English translation checklist
Simenon at New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/books/authors/georges-sime
non/)
Simenon's Estate at Peters Fraser & Dunlop (http://www.petersfraserdunlop.com/estates/georg
es-simenon)
Simenon - All Works (french) (http://www.toutsimenon.com/oeuvre/tout-simenon.html)
Georges Simenon UK - official author website (http://www.georgessimenon.co.uk)

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