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Michel Houellebecq (b. 1956 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion) is a French author and filmmaker.

Having completed a degree in agricultural engineering at the Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon, he continued his studies at the film school École nationale supérieure Louis Lumière and eventually found work as a programmer at the French Ministry of Agriculture.

After his first book on Lovecraft, entitled H.

P. Lovecraft : Contre le monde, contre la vie / “H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life” (Éditions du Rocher, 1991) and his first novel, Extension du domaine de la lute / “Whatever” (Éditions Maurice Nadeau, 1994), he shot to fame with Les Particules élémentaires / “Atomised” (Flammarion 1998): “A novel which hunts big game while others settle for shooting rabbits”, as Julian Barnes writes in his blurb, it won the 1998 Prix Novembre.

With Plateforme / “Platform” (Flammarion,