Comme dans un vrai film

Being Blanche Houellebecq

Rumba Therapy

Why Are We (Not) Creative?

Delete History

Thalasso

Houellebecq: encore un best-seller?

To Stay Alive: A Method

Saint Amour

A Perfect Man

Near Death Experience

The Kidnapping of Michel Houellebecq

Isolement

The Gordji Affair

La Traversée du désir

Possibility of an Island

The Trouble with Michel

Wah² Michel Houellebecq & Bertrand Burgalat

Cristal de souffrance

Les particules élémentaires

Unterwerfung

The Elementary Particles

The World Is Not a Landscape

9 Songs

The River

Playa Blanca

Whatever

Soumission

Michel Houellebecq (French pronunciation: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956) is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. Houellebecq published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. His next novel, Atomised, published in 1998, brought him international fame as well as controversy. Platform followed in 2001. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996.
An offhand remark about Islam during a publicity tour for his 2001 novel Platform led to Houellebecq being taken to court for inciting racial hatred (he was eventually cleared of all charges). He subsequently moved to Ireland for several years, before moving back to France, where he currently resides. He was described in 2015 as "France’s biggest literary export and, some say, greatest living writer." In a 2017 DW article, he is dubbed the "undisputed star, and enfant terrible, of modern French literature".
In 2010, he published The Map and the Territory, which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt. In 2015, his next novel, Submission, sparked another controversy for its depiction of Islam. He was also recently accused of plagiarism concerning Submission. Annihilation was published in 2022.