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Francois Mauriac was a fellow writer and admirer of Georges Simenon. Mauriac was a French Catholic novelist and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1952. He was known for his realistic and often pessimistic portrayals of human nature. Simenon was a Belgian-born novelist who wrote over 200 novels and short stories. He is best known for his series of detective novels featuring the character Maigret.