# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michel-houellebecq
# Generated: 2026-09-02T05:12:44.619Z

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name: "Michel Houellebecq"
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description: "He writes novels that land like grenades in the culture — Islam, sex, despair, the slow collapse of meaning in Western life — and the fury and fascination follow in equal measure. France calls him both its greatest living writer and its most dangerous."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Michel Thomas on 26 February 1956, he started with a biographical essay on H. P. Lovecraft before publishing his first novel Whatever in 1994. Atomised arrived in 1998 and brought international fame and immediate controversy. An offhand remark about Islam during the 2001 publicity tour for Platform landed him in court on charges of inciting racial hatred; he was cleared, then left for Ireland for several years before returning to France. The Map and the Territory won the Prix Goncourt in 2010. Submission, published in 2015, sparked fresh accusations of plagiarism — later deemed inadmissible — and was called both prophetic and inflammatory for its depiction of Islam. Annihilation followed in 2022. He has called himself "probably islamophobic" and been labeled the undisputed star and enfant terrible of modern French literature.