Everyone is familiar with the detectives of Georges Simenon. His books have been filmed repeatedly, the characters have become part of real life, household characters, role models. But as a rule, readers know about the writer himself very little.
The most famous hero of Georges Simenon was the Commissioner of Police Maigret. But in the "piggy bank" of this writer there are other books, the total number of which is more than 400 works. The classic detective described his biography, career path and personal life in a three-volume, which was sold in millions of copies, but after his death.
Biography of the writer Georges Simenon
The future classic of the detective genre was born in the winter of 1903 in the family of a modest employee of an insurance company. Georges' parents were very religious and prophesied to him the service of cure or, at least, the profession of confectioner, which at that time was popular in their homeland - in Belgium, but the boy chose literature. He himself dreamed of becoming a journalist or editor of a major publication, but fate decreed otherwise.
After the death of his father, Georges had to abandon college and, like all ordinary guys, serve in one of the military units. Independent life began after serving in the army, and not just anywhere, but in Paris. To earn a living, Georges began to write - reviews, small news articles, articles for the yellow press. This was the start of his writing career.
Career of Georges Simenon
The meager pay for journalistic work prompted Georges to the idea of writing a large-scale work. The young man always thought perspectively, one might say, was a dreamer. Those around him and his relatives did not believe in success, which even more encouraged him. As a result of painstaking work, the first work of Simenon - “Journalist’s novel” was published, but he did not bring him the desired fame and relevance as an author.
Fame and real income came to Georges only in 1929, when the first of the novels about Commissioner Megre, "Peters Latvian", was published. Readers got carried away, critics rejoiced, and they all demanded a continuation. Simenon began to work actively - it took him no more than 11 days to create an impressive novel. His assistants joked - reprinting takes longer than writing a work. Along with success came financial stability.
