- Is the 15th most translated author of all time, most translated French-speaking author of the 20th century (UNESCO Index Translationum 2011).
- The 20th century's most widely published and adapted author.
- Wrote some 250 novels under his own name (of which about 80 feature Maigret) which have been read by more than a billion readers worldwide.
- President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1960
- His 2nd wife Denise is the sister of famed Canadian journalist Marcel Ouimet.
- Simenon was famous for his erotic prowess. In old age, he bragged that he had slept with 10,000 different women.
- During the 1940s, Simenon was reportedly told by a doctor that he had a serious heart condition and that he was likely to die within months. It turned out to be a misdiagnosis, and Simenon lived until 1989.
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