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- Sep. 18, 1989: Died:Georges Simeon
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Sep. 18, 1989 Torching The Amazon
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 75
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- <p> DIED. Georges Simenon, 86, world-renowned mystery writer
- who created the fictional police inspector Maigret; in
- Lausanne, Switzerland. Simenon, who once boasted that he could
- bang out a novel in three days, published more than 400 novels
- under his own name and 17 pseudonyms. Because of his insight and
- prolific output, he was hailed as the Balzac of his time.
- Simenon's works sold more than 600 million copies in 57
- languages and spawned numerous films. "I'm not an intellectual
- at all," he told an interviewer in 1963. "I've never thought
- through a novel, I've felt it. I've never known where my
- characters would lead me."
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