Books
Book review: ‘Pedigree’ by Georges Simenon
Sept. 5, 2010
Entertainment & Arts
The reissue of Simenon’s novel of a family fighting tyranny from within and out reinforces the writer’s skill at mixing memory and imagination.
When I think of Georges Simenon, I see a man in a mask sitting in a bare room, writing; it might be an image out of a painting by Simenon’s fellow-countryman, the surrealist Rene Magritte.
April 25, 1993
Georges Simenon, creator of the French detective Inspector Maigret and the most widely published author of the 20th Century, has died at his Swiss home in Lausanne, it was announced today.
Sept. 6, 1989
France mourned one of its most popular and prolific writers Wednesday as the body of Georges Simenon, author of more than 500 books, including the immensely successful Inspector Maigret detective series, was cremated in a family ceremony near his home in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Sept. 7, 1989
Georges Simenon, who died last week in Lausanne, Switzerland, at age 86, violated two cardinal rules for achieving the highest literary honors.
Sept. 17, 1989
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan A Novel Georges Simenon, translated from the French by Marc Romano and Lawrence G.
Dec. 21, 2003
In an ambitious act of reinvention, Penguin has announced that it will reissue, in new translations, all 75 of Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret mysteries -- some of the bleakest, and best, works ever produced in the genre.
Jan. 30, 2014
The return of Inspector Maigret
Ernest Hemingway avidly read Georges Simenon for serious diversion and Thornton Wilder thought him a rare master of the narrative art.
Sept. 10, 1989