Biography
Michel Houellebecq was born on 26 February 1956 in Saint-Pierre, Réunion. He attended a preparatory class at the Lycée Chaptal in Paris and studied agricultural engineering at the Institut national agronomique Paris-Grignon, graduating in 1978; he subsequently began but left film studies at the École Louis-Lumière in 1981. During the 1980s he worked as a computer programmer and for several years at the French Ministry of Agriculture before turning to writing full-time. After early collections of poetry, the novel "Whatever" (1994) brought him initial attention, and "Atomised" (1998) marked his international breakthrough. Further novels followed, including "Platform" (2001), "The Possibility of an Island" (2005), "The Map and the Territory" (2010), "Submission" (2015), "Serotonin" (2019) and "Annihilation" (2022). His work has received the Prix Novembre (1998), the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (2002), the Prix Interallié (2005) and the Prix Goncourt (2010); in 2019 he was made a member of the Légion d'honneur.
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