Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems and essays, and an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer, born Michel Thomas. His first book was a monograph on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, and he published his first novel, Whatever, in 1994. His second novel, Atomised, in 1998 brought him international fame as well as controversy. He has published several books of poetry, including The Art of Struggle in 1996, and a remark about Islam during a publicity tour for his 2001 novel Platform led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, of which he was cleared.
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is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer
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born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956
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