New editions of his “hard” novels show an obsession with furtive desires and misdeeds—and an uncanny obliviousness to the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It takes an average of three months to a year for authors to write a novel, but books for this hit series took less than two weeks ...

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 ...

In late 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux president and publisher Mitzi Angel took the stage at the Center for Fiction’s annual gala and delivered an ode to what she called “a particular fancy of mine”: ...

1903-1989 "Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness." Liege, Belgium He left school at 16 due to his father's illness (his explanation) or because he rebelled against the discipline ...

This year happens to mark 75 years since publication of the first two Maigret romans policiers out of the 76 Georges Simenon would write. I picked up a few second hand a couple of years ago, and was ...

Which author has sold more copies than JK Rowling or Stephen King? More even than Tom Clancy, Ian Fleming, Wilbur Smith, EL James and Beatrix Potter combined? The answer might surprise you. The ...

The Belgian master’s literary brilliance lies precisely in his avoidance of anything ‘literary’. The numbers are still daunting, if not staggering: four hundred and fifty novels and story collections ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely ...