Michel Houellebecq date of birth:
February 26, 1956
How old is Michel Houellebecq?
70
Where was Michel Houellebecq born?
Réunion
What is Michel Houellebecq nationality?
French
What is Michel Houellebecq's occupation?
Novelist, filmmaker, magician and poet
Short Biography
Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1958 or 1956) is an award-winning French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. Atomised followed in 1998, and Platform in 2001. He published a book of poems, Le Sens de Combat (translated into English as The Art of Struggle), in 1996. After a publicity tour for Platform led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he moved to Ireland to write for several years. He currently resides in France. In 2010 he published the Prix Goncourt-winning La Carte et le Territoire (published the same year in English as The Map and the Territory).