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Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) 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.
Oct 8, 2024 · Oct. 8, 2024. Michel Houellebecq — arguably the most important French writer of the past quarter-century — was perched on the seat of his chair like a bird. We were sitting in his dim Paris ...
Mar 11, 2022 · Above all, it seems that his writing seeks more than ever to fuel if not hope, then at least values. His books paint a portrait of morality that keeps mediocre and bad people at a distance.
Oct 8, 2024 · Michel Houellebecq is a French writer, satirist, and provocateur whose work exposes his sometimes darkly humorous, often offensive, and thoroughly misanthropic view of humanity and the world. He is one of the best-known, if not always best-loved, French novelists of the early 21st century.
Jan 19, 2022 · Houellebecq, once a man of the left, has acquired the rare and unusual position of being a writer who has not only a deep understanding of the complexity of France in the early 21st century, but a direct impact on political life in the country. What he says matters.
Sep 13, 2024 · France’s most famous and controversial writer on Trump, Ukraine and what he believes lies behind the rise of the far right
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.
