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Portrait of Georges Simenon Photo: Keystone Pictures USA / TT (1973)

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Simenon, Georges

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian author. He was born to Catholic middle-class parents in Liège. Georges Simenon is considered among the foremost and most popular French-speaking authors of the 20th century. He was extremely prolific. His exact output is unknown, but estimates suggest that he wrote between 200 and 300 novels, over a thousand short stories as well as innumerable ...

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Kurt Wallander

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Wallander lives and works in Ystad, southern Sweden. But it does not prevent him from leading investigations of especially difficult cases, chasing serial killers and international criminals. Through Henning Mankell’s books as well as adaptations for film and television, he has become a popular figure and one of Sweden’s best-known fictional characters worldwide.

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