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Michel Houellebecq
Birth at
26 February 1956
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Michel Houellebecq was born on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean (the island belonged to the possessions of France) on February 26, 1958. His parents (father – guide in the mountains and mother – anesthesiologist) paid little attention to the boy. He was raised by his grandparents who lived in Algeria. Michelle became interested in literary work as a teenager. In 1975, the future writer entered the National Agronomy Institute Paris-Grignon. As a student, Michel created the literary magazine
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Michel Houellebecq was born on the island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean (the island belonged to the possessions of France) on February 26, 1958. His parents (father – guide in the mountains and mother – anesthesiologist) paid little attention to the boy. He was raised by his grandparents who lived in Algeria. Michelle became interested in literary work as a teenager. In 1975, the future writer entered the National Agronomy Institute Paris-Grignon. As a student, Michel created the literary magazine Karamazov, in which he published his first samples of the pen.
After graduating from the Institute in 1978, Michel continued his studies at the Lumiere National High School at the Faculty of Cinematography. He successfully graduated from high school in 1981. The next period of the writer’s life is a difficult time of unemployment and lack of money. Michelle changes her work, tries to publish. Finally, in 1991, the first books, collections of Michel’s essays, “To Stay Alive” and “Against Humanity, Against Progress” were published. But these works remain in the shadows.
His first novel, Expanding the Space of Struggle, was published in 1994. The fame of Michel as a talented writer was consolidated by the novel Elementary Particles published in 1998, in which Houellebecq lays out and analyzes the essence of the existence of mankind and concludes that the human world is doomed. This book brings Michel real fame and the prestigious prize “November”. His next works – “Interalier”, “Staying Alive”, “The World as a Supermarket”, “Platform”, “The Opportunity of the Island” are welcomed by critics and find their devoted reader.
Michelle loves to travel, he lived in France, Spain, Ireland. He is known to the world for his rejection of Islam. Islam is the most dangerous and stupid religion. Michel Wilbreck is recognized as one of the most popular and famous French writers in the world.