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Georges Simenon

Died in 1989

Georges Simenon was born in Liège on 13 February 1903. A journalist at the Gazette de Liège from the end of the war, he settled in Paris in 1922 and wrote popular novels there under numerous pseudonyms, before creating Inspector Maigret at the beginning of the 1930s. He also wrote psychological novels, which he called his hard novels. From 1945 to 1955, he lived in North America, then settled in Switzerland. He stopped writing novels at the beginning of the 1970s and died in Lausanne on 4 September 1989.

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