Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq (real name Michel Thomas, born 26 February {{French literature (small)}} 1956, on the French island of Réunion) is a controversial, award-winning French novelist. He left France and lived in Ireland for some years. He currently lives in Spain but has said he was going to leave again.

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26 February - 1956 - Réunion - French - Novelist - France - Ireland - Spain

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Houellebecq worked as computer administrator in Paris before he became the so-called "pop star of the single generation". Gaining fame with the novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994 (translated into English by Paul Hammond as Whatever), he won the 1998 Prix Novembre with his novel Les Particules élementaires (translated by Frank Wynne) and published as Atomised (Heinemann, UK)/The Elementary Particles (Knopf, US) which became an instant "nihilistic classic" that the New York Times called "a deeply repugnant read." The novel earned Houellebecq and with his translator Frank Wynne the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2002.

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Paris - 1994 - 1998 - Frank Wynne - Atomised - New York Times - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - 2002

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