American Public Media Subject: The Writer's Almanac for
Sunday, February 13, 2005
It's the birthday of Belgian writer Georges Simenon, born in
Li规 (1903). He's known as the master of the crime novel, and
he's famous for creating the character Inspector Maigret, a
police detective in Paris. Simenon wrote 84 Maigret books,
and over one thousand other short stories and articles, as
well as other non-Maigret books.
Simenon was born a little after one o'clock in the morning on
the 13th, but his Flemish mother, Henriette, was very
superstitious. She had the birth date officially recorded as
February 12th because she thought the 13th was bad
luck.
Simenon moved to Paris in 1922, and it was there that he
started writing what he called "my pulp fiction." He wrote at
a rate of about eight pages a day. These were everything from
stories about spies to sappy romances for girls. He published
these under the pseudonym Georges Sim, or under one of his
other 16 pseudonyms. Simenon said, "I adore life but I don't
fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible."
Victoria
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