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  <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq (born Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958 (birth certificate) or 1956 on the French island of Réunion, is a controversial and award-winning French novelist. To admirers he is a writer in the tradition of literary provocation that reaches back to the Marquis de Sade and Baudelaire; to detractors he is a peddler of sleaze and shock. Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H P Lovecraft he brought out his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Plateform , in 2001. After a disastrous publicity tour for this book , which led to his being taken to court for inciting racial hatred, he went to Ireland to write.
He currently lives in Spain.]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>    <born_at>02/26/1958</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Elementary Particles]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <published>1999</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Platform]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Possibility of an Island]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Whatever]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Lanzarote]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Extension du domaine de la lutte]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <published>2001</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq : Extension du domaine de la lutte - Les particules élémentaires - Plateforme (Coffret 3 volumes)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Vintage Satire: Gulliver's Travels/Atomised]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Jonathan Swift]]></name>
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  <published>2007</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Poésies: Le sens du combat, La porsuite du bonheur, Renaissance]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Michel Houellebecq]]></name>
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  <published>2006</published>  
  
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