The Resume

(February 13, 1903-September 4, 1989)
Born in Liege, Belgium
Wrote over 400 novels
Created the fictional detective Inspector Maigret

Why he might be annoying:

He claimed to have slept with 10,000 women, 8,000 of whom were prostitutes.
He used 16 pseudonyms.
As a journalist, he wrote a series of anti-semitic articles about the 'Jewish peril.'
He was accused of collaborating with the Germans during World War II and was banned from publishing new works for five years.
When Albert Camus won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he asked his wife, 'Can you believe that asshole got it and not me?'

Why he might not be annoying:

His books were translated in 50 languages and sold over 600 million copies.
He was known for his spare literary style in which he cut 'every word which is there just to make an effect.'
Nobel Prize laureate Andre Gide called him 'the greatest and most genuine novelist of today's French literature.'

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• Born on Friday the Thirteenth (Ranked: 1903)
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 19]
• Cannes Film Festival Jury Members (Ranked: 1960)
• Cannes Film Festival Jury Presidents (Ranked: 1960)
• Grand Master Award of the Mystery Writers of America (Ranked: 1965)
• I am an Adulterer
• I Claimed to Have Banged Over 1,000 People
• I Did Not Graduate High School [N-S]
• I Died in 1989 (Ranked: 86)
• I Outlived My Child
• I was Cremated
• I Write Pulp Fiction
• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999] (Ranked: 84)
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Look at My Magazine Cover
• Look at the Time
• Male Pipe Smokers
• Profiles 25501-25750 (Ranked: 25541)
• Whores and Johns

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 9 Votes: 44.44% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 4 Votes: 75.00% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 47.37% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 18 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 63 Votes: 50.79% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 66 Votes: 63.64% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 34 Votes: 67.65% Annoying