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.

Bibliography

• Whatever - (translated by Paul Hammond, original title: Extension du domaine de la lutte) - 1994
• Atomised - (translated by Frank Wynne, original title: Les Particules élémentaires; published in the US as The Elementary Particles) - 1998
• Lanzarote - (translated by Frank Wynne) - 2000
• Platform - (translated by Frank Wynne, original title Plateforme) - 2001
• Against the World, Against Life (translated by Dorna Khazeni) a biography of H. P. Lovecraft.
• The Possibility of an Island - original title La Possibilité d'une île - 2005

Untranslated works

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• Rester vivant, méthode, La Différence (1991)
• La Poursuite du bonheur, poèmes, La Différence (1992)
• Le Sens du combat, poèmes, Flammarion (1996)
• Interventions, recueil d'essais, Flammarion (1998)
• Renaissance, poèmes, Flammarion (1999)