A Summer Holiday

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A Summer Holiday
Author Georges Simenon
Original titleFrench: Les Vacances de Maigret
LanguageFrench
Series Inspector Jules Maigret
Genre Detective fiction, crime fiction
Publisher Presses de la Cité
Publication date
1948
Publication place Belgium
Published in English
1950
Media typePrint
Preceded by Maigret in New York  
Followed by Maigret's Dead Man  

A Summer Holiday (other English-language titles are No Vacation for Maigret, Maigret on Holiday, and Maigret's Holiday; French: Les Vacances de Maigret) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret. The novel was written between November 11 to November 20, 1947, in Tucson, Arizona, United States. [1] The book was published in the following year by Presses de la Cité.

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Translations

The book has been translated into English under different titles: in 1950 as A Summer Holiday and in 1953 as No Vacation for Maigret by Geoffrey Sainsbury; in 1970 as Maigret on Holiday by Jacqueline Baldick; in 2016 as Maigret's Holiday by Ros Schwartz. [2]

The first German translation by Jean Raimond was published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch in 1956. The new translation by Markus Jakob was published by Diogenes Verlag in 1985. [3]

Adaptations

The novel has been adapted several times for cinema and television: [4]

In French
In English
In Dutch

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References

  1. Biographie de Georges Simenon 1946 à 1967 auf Toutesimenon.com, der Internetseite des Omnibus Verlags.
  2. "Les Vacances de Maigret". Trussel.com. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  3. Oliver Hahn: Bibliografie deutschsprachiger Ausgaben. Georges-Simenon-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Simenon-Jahrbuch 2003. Wehrhahn, Laatzen 2004, ISBN 3-86525-101-3, S. 66.
  4. Film history at trussel.com.; retrieved 22 February 2023.