Pedigree (Simenon novel)

Pedigree

First edition
Author	Georges Simenon
Translator	Robert Baldick
Language	French
Publisher	Presses de la Cité
Publication date	1948
Published in English	1962
Media type	Print
Pages	543 (NYRB)

Pedigree is an autobiographical novel by the Belgian author Georges Simenon, first published in 1948. Simenon described the work as "a book in which everything is true but nothing is accurate." It presents a fictionalised account of the author's childhood in Liège, Belgium from the start of the twentieth century to the end of World War I.

An English translation by Robert Baldick was first published in the United Kingdom in 1962. Baldick's original translation was reissued by New York Review Books Classics in 2010 with an introduction by Luc Sante.