Michel Houellebecq (FRA) * 26.02.1958
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Michel Houellebecq (French: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1956), is a controversial and award-winning French author, filmmaker and poet. Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, Extension du domaine de la lutte, in 1994. Les Particules élémentaires followed in 1998, and Plateforme in 2001. After a publicity tour for this book led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he moved to Ireland to write for several years[1] and now resides in Spain.
Bibliography:
Novels
Extension du domaine de la lutte (1994, trans. as Whatever by Paul Hammond, 1998)
Les Particules élémentaires (1998, trans. as Atomised by Frank Wynne, 2000; published in the US as The Elementary Particles)
Plateforme (2001, trans. as Platform by Frank Wynne, 2002)
La Possibilité d'une île (2005, trans. as The Possibility of an Island by Gavin Bowd, 2006)
La Carte et le Territoire, Paris, Flammarion (2010, trans. as The Map and the Territory)
Other books
H. P. Lovecraft: Contre le monde, contre la vie (1991, trans. as H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Dorna Khazeni, Intro by Stephen King, 2005), an analysis of the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft.
Rester vivant, méthode, La Différence (1991)
La Poursuite du bonheur, poèmes, La Différence (1992)
Le Sens du combat, poèmes, Flammarion (1996)[12]
Interventions, recueil d'essais, Flammarion (1998)
Renaissance, poèmes, Flammarion (1999)
Lanzarote (2000, trans. by Frank Wynne, 2002)
Ennemis publics (letters between Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Lévy), Flammarion (2008, transl. as Public Enemies: Dueling Writers Take on Each Other and the World, Random House, 2011, paperback, 320 pages, ISBN 0-8129-8078-6)
Articles
"Description d'une lassitude" (2002) in Houelle 10, Paris.
"Je crois peu en la liberté – Entretien" (1998) in Revue Perpendiculaire 11, Paris: Flammarion, p. 4–23.
"L'homme de gauche est mal parti" (2003) in Le Figaro 6/1/03, p. 1, 13.
"La question pédophile: Réponse" (1997) in L'Infini 59, Paris: Gallimard, pp. 96–98.
"La privatisation du monde" (2000) in L'Atelier du roman 23, Paris, pp. 129–34.
"Le haut langage" (1995) in La Quinzaine littéraire, 670; Paris; pp. 21–22.
"Michel Houellebecq répond à Perpendiculaire" (1998) in Le Monde 18 September 1998
"Neil Young" (2000) in Michka Assayas (ed.) Dictionnaire du rock, Paris: Robert Laffont (second part of the article, co-signed with Yves Bigot who wrote the more chronological first part).
"Préface" in Tomi Ungerer (2001) Erotoscope, Paris: Éditions Taschen.
"Préface: L'Humanité, second stade" (1998) in Valérie Solanas, Scum Manifesto, Paris: Éditions Mille et une nuits, pp. 63–69.
"Préface: Préliminaires au positivisme" (2003) in Bourdeau, Braunstein & Petit (eds.): Auguste Comte aujourd'hui, Paris: Éditions Kimé, pp. 7–12. (Translated as "Religion for Immortals," The Utopian, December, 2010)[13]
"Préface: Renoncer à l'intelligence" (1991) in Rémy de Gourmont, L'Odeur des jacinthes, Paris: Orphée/La Différence, pp. 7–20.
"Un monde sans direction" (1996) in La Quinzaine littéraire, 700; Paris; pp. 8–9.
"Wilde Flucht" (2000) in Tageszeitung Berlin, 30 October 2000.
"En présence de Schopenhauer" (2010) in Mediapart.fr, feb. 2010 (5 parts).
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Houellebecq
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