Biography
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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Filmography
all 136
Movies 119
Writer 109
TV Shows 17
self 6
Creator 6
The Green Shutters (2022)
Maigret (2022)
Maigret (2016)
La Mort d'Auguste (2015)
La boule noire (2015)
The Blue Room (2014)
Les complices (2013)
L'escalier de fer (2013)
Madrid, 1987 (2012)
Jusqu'à l'enfer (2009)
Tout (ou presque) sur Maigret (2009)
En Cas de Malheur (2009)
Monsieur Joseph (2007)
Die Katze (2007)
The Man from London (2007)
Les Innocents (2006)
La Californie (2006)
La Fuite de monsieur Monde (2004)
L'ombra cinese (2004)
La trappola di Maigret (2004)
Red Lights (2004)
The House by the Canal (2003)
The Blue Room (2002)
L'Aîné des Ferchaux (2001)
L'Aîné des Ferchaux (2001)
Federico Fellini's Autobiography (2000)
Adela (2000)
In All Innocence (1998)
Tangier Cop (1997)
Stranger in the House (1997)
Les clients d'Avrenos (1996)
Le blanc à lunettes (1995)
El pasajero clandestino (1995)
The Teddy Bear (1994)
The Window Over the Way (1993)
Цена головы (1992)
Stranger in the House (1992)
Betty (1992)
Maigret (1992)
Maigret (1991)
Seven Days After the Murder (1991)
Ein anderer Liebhaber (1990)
Monsieur Hire (1989)
Maigret (1988)
Maigret is with the Minister (1987)
Die Stunde des Léon Bisquet (1986)
Die Komplizen (1985)
Die Unbekannten im eigenen Haus (1985)
De burgemeester van Veurne (1984)
Equator (1983)
Семь крестиков в записной книжке (1983)
Es gibt noch Haselnußsträucher (1983)
Мегрэ колеблется (1982)
The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
The North Star (1982)
Maigret and the Man on the Bench (1981)
Братья Рико (1980)
Der Mörder (1979)
Bellas Tod (1979)
Les Anneaux de Bicêtre (1977)
Apostrophes (1975)
Мегрэ и старая дама (1974)
The Prison (1974)
Der kleine Doktor (1974)
The Watchmaker of St. Paul (1974)
Rückfahrt von Venedig (1973)
The Last Train (1973)
Maigret and the man on the bench (1973)
شباب يحترق (1972)
The Family Rico (1972)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
Der Mann aus London (1971)
The Widow Couderc (1971)
The Cat (1971)
Obavy komisaře Maigreta (1971)
Treffpunkte (1970)
Сесиль умерла (1970)
The Resurrection of the Beast (1969)
Hotel Majestic (1968)
Les Dossiers de l'Agence O (1968)
Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967)
Cop-Out (1967)
Maigret at the Pigalle (1966)
Enter Inspector Maigret (1966)
Thirteen Against Fate (1966)
Three Rooms in Manhattan (1965)
Un'ombra su Maigret (1964)
Le inchieste del commissario Maigret (1964)
Maigret (1964)
Magnet of Doom (1963)
Maigret Sees Red (1963)
The Saint-Fiacre Affair (1963)
Emile's Boat (1962)
The Passion of Slow Fire (1961)
The President (1961)
Maigret (1960)
Liberty Bar (1960)
The Baron of the Locks (1960)
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)
Love Is My Profession (1958)
The Stowaway (1958)
その手にのるな (1958)
Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)
The Brothers Rico (1957)
Sette piccole croci (1957)
Blood to the Head (1956)
Cinépanorama (1956)
The Bottom of the Bottle (1956)
Maigret Leads the Investigation (1956)
A Life in the Balance (1955)
Stain on the Snow (1954)
The Man Who Watched Trains Go By (1952)
Full House (1952)
Forbidden Fruit (1952)
The Truth About Bebe Donge (1952)
Midnight Episode (1950)
Marie of the Port (1950)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
Last Refuge (1947)
Barrio (1947)
Temptation Harbour (1947)
Panic (1947)
Majestic Hotel Cellars (1945)
Cecile Is Dead (1944)
The London Man (1943)
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint (1943)
Picpus (1943)
Midnight in Paris (1942)
Strangers in the House (1942)
Annette and the Blonde Woman (1942)
The House of the Seven Maidens (1942)
A Man's Neck (1933)
The Yellow Dog (1932)
Night at the Crossroads (1932)
The Stain on the Snow
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GenderMale
Birthday1903-02-13
Deathday1989-09-04 (86 years old)
Birth NameGeorges Joseph Christian Simenon
Birth PlaceLiège, Belgium
ChildrenPierre Simenon, Marc Simenon
SiblingsChristian Simenon
CitizenshipsBelgium
ResidencesLakeville, United States of America, Epalinges, Switzerland, place des Vosges · Marsilly, France
Also Known AsGeorges Joseph Christian Simenon, Жорж Жозеф Кристиан Сименон, Жорж Сименон, Georges Siménon
AwardsEdgar Awards
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