Georges Simenon (Liège, 1903 – Lausanne, 1989) was a Belgian novelist writing in French, one of the most prolific and widely translated authors of the twentieth century. He created Inspector Maigret, hero of 75 novels and 28 short stories published between 1931 and 1972, and also wrote more than a hundred standalone psychological novels, the « romans durs », among them Dirty Snow, Monsieur Hire's Engagement and The Cat. He lived in France, the United States and finally Switzerland.
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Georges Simenon (Liège, 1903 – Lausanne, 1989) was a Belgian novelist writing in French, one of the most prolific and widely translated authors of the twentieth century. He created Inspector Maigret, hero of 75 novels and 28 short stories published between 1931 and 1972, and also wrote more than a hundred standalone psychological novels, the « romans durs », among them Dirty Snow, Monsieur Hire's Engagement and The Cat. He lived in France, the United States and finally Switzerland.
