A Summer Holiday (other English-language titles include No Vacation for Maigret, Maigret on Holiday, and Maigret's Holiday; ) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret. The novel was written between November 11 and November 20, 1947, in Tucson, Arizona, United States.Biographie de Georges Simenon 1946 à 1967 auf Toutesimenon.com, der Internetseite des Omnibus Verlags. The book was published in the following year by Presses de la Cité.
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.
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.Oliver Hahn: Bibliografie deutschsprachiger Ausgaben. Georges-Simenon-Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Simenon-Jahrbuch 2003. Wehrhahn, Laatzen 2004, ISBN 3-86525-101-3, S. 66.
Adaptations The novel has been adapted several times for cinema and television:Film history at trussel.com.; retrieved 22 February 2023.
In French 1956: as Maigret en Vacances, starring Henri Norbert as Maigret; 1971: as Maigret en vacances, with Jean Richard in the lead role; 1995: as Les Vacances de Maigret, with Bruno Cremer;
In English 1961: as On Holiday, starring Rupert Davies;
In Dutch 1968: as Maigret met vakantie (Maigret on Holiday), starring Jan Teulings.
Bibliography Maurice Piron, Michel Lemoine, L'Univers de Simenon, guide des romans et nouvelles (1931–1972) de Georges Simenon, Presses de la Cité, 1983, p. 308-309
External links
Maigret at trussel.com
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