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. 
Anthea Bell OBE ( 1936 - 2018) was an English translator of literary works, including children's literature, from French, German and Danish. These include 
The Castle by Franz Kafka, 
Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald, the 
Inkworld trilogy by Cornelia Funke and the French 
Asterix comics along with co-translator Derek Hockridge.