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 ...
Literary figures
Knud Ejnarsen
Gender: Male
A boorish, prejudiced, aggressive and heavy-handed police detective in the Danish ‘Rejsehold’, a sort of Danish FBI. He would have been insufferable if he hadn’t functioned as an excellent complement to his colleague Jonas Mørck, who is his complete opposite. The dialogues between the two in Poul Ørum’s books are deeply human, and the well-built, somewhat overweight Knud Ejnarsen, who sweats quite...