What is Michel Houellebecq?
{{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see [[:Template:Infobox writer/doc]] --> | name = Michel Houellebecq | birth_name = Michel Thomas | image = 2008.06.09. Michel Houellebecq Fot Mariusz Kubik 03.jpg | caption =Houellebecq in 2008 | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1956|2|26}} | birth_place = [[Saint-Pierre, Réunion|Saint-Pierre]], [[Réunion]] | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Novelist, [[Film director|filmmaker]] and poet | movement = | website = {{URL|http://www.houellebecq.info/}} }} '''Michel Houellebecq''' ({{IPA-fr|miʃɛl wɛlbɛk|lang}}; born '''Michel Thomas'''; 26 February 1956)<ref>Houellebecq was born in 1956, but gave out his birth year to be 1958, before it was revealed by a [[journalist]].<br/>{{Cite book |title=Historical Dictionary of French Literature |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA246 |page=246 |publisher=Scarecrow Press|year=2013 |first=Jon |last=Flower}}<br/>{{Cite news |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/books/the-french-still-obsess-over-their-gloomy-novelist-of-despair.html?_r=0 |date=10 September 2005 |first=Alan |last=Riding |title=The French Still Obsess Over Their Gloomy Novelist of Despair}}</ref> is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. Houellebecq published his first novel, ''[[Whatever (novel)|Whatever]]'', in 1994. His next novels ''[[Atomised]]'', published in 1998, and ''[[Platform (novel)|Platform]]'' followed in 2001 were also his best known works.{{fact|date=August 2022}} ==References== {{reflist}} {{Prix Goncourt|state=autocollapse}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Houellebecq, Michel}} [[Category:1956 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:French novelists]] [[Category:French poets]] {{bio-stub}}