Georges Simenon (1903-1989) began work as a reporter for a local newspaper at the age of sixteen, and at nineteen he moved to Paris to embark on a career as a novelist. He went on to write seventy-five Maigret novels and twenty-eight Maigret short stories.
Shaun Whiteside's translations include Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy and Musil's The Confessions of Young T�rless for Penguin Classics.