Michel Houellebecq
26 February 1958, on the French island of Réunion) is a controversial, award-winning French novelist resident in Ireland and Lanzarote.
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, he won the 1998 Prix Décembre with his novel Les Particules Elementaires being an instant 'nihilistic classic' that the New York Times called a deeply repugnant read.
He has been accused and tried several times for being supposedly anti-islamic.
Works include:
- Contre le monde, contre la vie, biography of H. P. Lovecraft.
- Extension du domaine de la lutte - 1994
- Le sens du combat - 1996
- Les Particules Elementaires - 1998
- Lanzarote - 2000
- Plateforme - 2001
