Books, News: everything on Michel Houellebecq

After the possibility of an island, in 2005, he returned with a fanfare for the map and the territory, in 2010, which will earn him a Goncourt prize and still a little greater recognition.If he always publishes, in parallel with his novels, novels and collections of poetry, his following book, Submission, published in 2015, launches a vast debate in French society: he evokes the victory in the presidential elections of a candidateopenly Muslim.The novel is published on January 7, 2015 by Flammarion editions, the same day of an Islamist attack against Charlie Hebdo, which fueling the controversy a little more.

Novelist, poet, Michel Houellebecq is also an actor, on occasion, in films by Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine and Guillaume Nicloux.

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