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Michel Houellebecq
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Michel Houellebecq

Actor · born February 26, 1956

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Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems, and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker, and singer. His first book was a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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Milestones, by age

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  1. ~46Received the Dublin Literary Award2002
  2. ~54Named Prix Goncourt2010
  3. ~63Received the Austrian State Prize for European Literature2019

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