Michel Houellebecq Writer

Michel Houellebecq (French: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1958) is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. Atomised followed in 1998, and Platform in 2001. After a publicity tour for this book led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he moved to Ireland to write for several years. He currently resides in France.

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Birth date	February 26, 1956
Birth name	Michel Thomas
Birth place	Réunion

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influenced by	Aldous Huxley Arthur Schopenhauer Blaise Pascal Charles Baudelaire H. P. Lovecraft Thomas Mann Georges Perec Honoré de Balzac Joris-Karl Huysmans Auguste Comte Bret Easton Ellis Clifford D. Simak

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