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Houellebecq wins his Goncourt.

"Michel Houellebecq, at last!" declared Le Monde after the chairman of the Goncourt committee stood before a crush of journalists outside the Restaurant Drouant in Paris to confirm Houellebecq's triumph for his latest novel.

The publication of a new Houellebecq title is a box-office event in France, and La Carte et Le Territoire , his quietest, least provocative novel, has been glowingly reviewed since it appeared in September.

Previously at TEV:  Textually Transmissible.