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.

Controversy

His subsequent novel Plateforme (2001) earned him a wider reputation still, though extracts from the novel, together with an interview he accorded the magazine Lire led to charges being brought against him by France's Human Rights League, the Mecca-based World Islamic League and the mosques of Paris and Lyon in a trial reminiscent of Britain's Salman Rushdie affair. A panel of three judges, delivering their verdict to a packed Paris courtroom, acquitted Houellebecq of the charges of provoking racial hatred.

Related Topics:
2001 - Mecca - Islam - Mosque - Lyon - Salman Rushdie - Paris

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