The Belgian author’s genius comes to the fore in a dark domestic drama ...

Investigating a Belgian emigre bookbinder accused of murder, Chief Inspector Maigret gets help from Mme. Maigret, who accidentally befriends a woman and little boy connected to the case. According to ...

Georges Simenon’s remarkable novel manages to make its loathsome protagonist compelling company If you’ve just read The Snow Was Dirty because you were encouraged to do so by the Reading Group, I ...

“Maigret and the Dosser” is the name of the new title in the ‘Neqab’ (mask) series of Jahan-e Ketab Publishing House, which has been translated by Abbas Agahi, Mehr reported. The French title was ...

Colin Callender’s Playground and Red Arrow Studios International are joining forces to co-develop a premium English-language returning drama series based on Georges Simenon’s classic Inspector Maigret ...

In the 1930s, the creator of Maigret travelled the world as a journalist. His photographs reveal an artistic sensibility captivated by the camera’s ability to stop time. By William Boyd Georges ...

THE SHADOW FALLS—Georges Simenon —Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Every week, the good citizens of La Rochelle saw the respected Donadieu family march in stately procession to Holy Mass, led by Grand Old Man ...

New York Review Books: 560 pp., $17.95 paper In 1941, a doctor told Georges Simenon that he had two years to live. The famously prolific author eventually learned the diagnosis was wrong (he died in ...

Back in 1960, when he was 57, the best-selling author Georges Simenon, who has 500 novels to his name, the best-known of which are the Maigret tales, began filling a few notebooks with diary entries.

Simenon is often read as a writer who offers no hope, yet preached a doctrine of cool serenity which is ultimately liberating. By John Gray The author of about 500 books, most of them written in less ...

As one contemplates the life and work of Georges Simenon, the question inevitably arises: Was he human? In his energies, creative and erotic, he was certainly extraordinary. He wrote some 400 novels, ...