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   Michel Houellebecq (French: [miˈʃɛl wɛlˈbɛk]; born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1956 or 1958) is a French author of novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft .

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Michel-HouellebecqMichel Houellebecq | Biography, Books, & Facts | Britannica

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   May 6, 2024 · Michel Houellebecq, French writer, satirist, and provocateur whose work exposes his sometimes darkly humorous, often offensive, and thoroughly misanthropic view of humanity and the world. He was one of the best-known, if not always best-loved, French novelists of the early 21st century.

4. www.dw.com › en › michel-houellebecqs-new-novelHouellebecq's 'Annihilate' to be his last novel – DW – 01/11/2022

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   Jan 11, 2022 · With his latest tome, the literary provocateur Michel Houellebecq completes his writer's quest: to portray a dying white patriarchy. The big surprise comes in the acknowledgments.

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   Jan 28, 2022 · The sonorous opening paragraph of Michel Houellebecq’s new novel anéantir (“annihilate”), his eighth, immediately places the reader on recognisably Houellebecqian terrain. “On certain ...

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7. www.theparisreview.org › interviews › 6040Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 206

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   The controversial French writer talks about his novels, his views, and his life in this in-depth interview. He discusses his influences, his critics, his music, and his travels in a candid and witty manner.

8. www.newstatesman.com › culture › booksHow Michel Houellebecq diminished himself - New Statesman

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   Jun 2, 2023 · How Michel Houellebecq diminished himself. Full of explicit depictions of bizarre, humiliating events, the French novelist’s new memoir reads like the ramblings of a buffoon.

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   Who is Michel Houellebecq?

   • Michel Houellebecq ( French: [miˈʃɛl wɛlˈbɛk]; born Michel Thomas, 26 February 1956 or 1958) is a French author of novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994.

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   What is Houellebecq famous for?

   • Houellebecq has won many major French literary prizes, though not the coveted Goncourt, which many in the French literary establishment feel has been unfairly withheld. He has also published several volumes of poetry and essays. Some of his poems have been set to music, and Houellebecq has performed them in Parisian nightclubs.

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   Did Michel Houellebecq write a memoir?

   • Full of explicit depictions of bizarre, humiliating events, the French novelist’s new memoir reads like the ramblings of a buffoon. Near the beginning of his career, in 1991, Michel Houellebecq published a poetic manifesto, Rester vivant ( Staying alive) that remains key to his work. He said that to write you must have no shame.

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   Does Michel Houellebecq smoke?

   • But as his artistic photos show, writing isn't the only obsession of scandalous French author Michel Houellebecq. Smoking is just one of his numerous obsessions, says Michel Houellebecq. His first collection of poems "La Poursuite du Bonheur" ("The Pursuit of Happiness") was published in 1991.

   Houellebecq's 'Annihilate' to be his last novel – DW – 01/11/2022

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   What did Michel Houellebecq say?

   • Near the beginning of his career, in 1991, Michel Houellebecq published a poetic manifesto, Rester vivant ( Staying alive) that remains key to his work. He said that to write you must have no shame. “Be abject and you will be true.” Remember, he counselled, “basically, you’re already dead.”

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   What happened to Pierre Houellebecq?

   • In 2019, his admirer Emmanuel Macron raised him to become a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, the highest French order of merit. Now Houellebecq’s in trouble again. In January last year, his eighth full-length novel, Anéantir ( Annihilate ), 736 pages long, was not well received, despite being published in a luxury edition of 300,000.

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10. www.goodreads.com › author › showMichel Houellebecq (Author of The Elementary Particles)

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    Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist.