Georges Simenon (SIMENON George)

Belgian by birth, received French citizenship in 1922. From a young age are actively engaged in literary activity. In the period from 1923 to 1931 Simenon published 1,075 stories for adults and 150 children, as well as several novels and 19 of the first detectives (the very first - "Knox Elusive" - was released in 1926). The spring of 1930 the Parisian publisher Fayar dared to publish the first five novels of Jules Maigret - despite the fact that I was almost convinced of their impending failure. Simenon has created his own line of detective outwardly slightly reminiscent of "detective story". Concerns were related to the fact that Simenon created its own, completely new to the reader in the direction of a detective genre, only superficially resembles "a detective story". Fortunately, anticipation was not justified. Although the book on Maigret approximately one third of the creative heritage of Simenon (writer himself regarded as central to a so-called "difficult" novels), the last work of art by Georges Simenon was just about the Commissioner. Simenon novel completed in 1972 and in subsequent years only wrote his memoirs.