Michel Houellebecq (born 26 February 1956 or 1958) is a French writer and occasional actor, film director and singer.
Michel Houellebecq (born 26 February 1956 or 1958) is a French writer and occasional actor, film director and singer.
Michel Houellebecq is a French author of novels, poems and essays, as well as an occasional actor, filmmaker and singer.
The Prix Décembre, originally known as the Prix Novembre, is one of France's premier literary awards. It was founded under the name Prix Novembre in 1989 by Philippe Dennery. In 1998, the founder resigned after he disapproved awarding of the prize to Michel Houellebecq's novel Atomised. The prize then got a new patron – Pierre Bergé – and a new name: Prix Decembre.
Boucicaut is a station on line 8 of the Paris Métro in the 15th arrondissement. It is named after the former Boucicaut Hospital and the rue Boucicaut.
Michel Serres was a French philosopher, theorist and writer. His works explore themes of science, time and death, and later incorporated prose.
Andreï Sergueïevitch Makine is a French novelist. He also publishes under the pseudonym Gabriel Osmonde. Makine's novels include Dreams of My Russian Summers (1995) which won two top French awards, the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis. He was elected to seat 5 of the Académie Française on 3 March 2016, succeeding Assia Djebar.
Kenneth White was a Scottish poet, academic and writer.
Pierre-Jean Rémy is the pen-name of Jean-Pierre Angremy who was a French diplomat, novelist, and essayist. He was elected to the Académie française on 16 June 1988, and won the 1986 Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française for his novel Une ville immortelle.
Claude Esteban was a French poet.
Jean-Jacques Birgé is an independent French musician and filmmaker, at once music composer, film director, multimedia author, sound designer, founder of record label GRRR. Specialist of the relations between sound and pictures, he has been an early synthesizer user and with Un Drame Musical Instantané, an initiator of the return of silent movies with live orchestra in 1976. His records show the use of samplers since 1980 and computers since 1985.
Michel Host was a French writer.
The Map and the Territory is a novel by French author Michel Houellebecq. The narrative revolves around a successful artist, and involves a fictional murder of Houellebecq. It was published on 4 September 2010 by Flammarion and received the Prix Goncourt, the most prestigious French literary prize, in 2010. The title is a reference to the map–territory relation.
Bernard Henri Maris, also known as "Oncle Bernard", was a French economist, writer and journalist who was also a shareholder in Charlie Hebdo magazine. He was murdered on 7 January 2015, during the shooting at the headquarters of the magazine in Paris.
Maryse Wolinski was a French journalist, novelist and writer. She was the widow of cartoonist Georges Wolinski who died on 7 January 2015 during the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris.
Patrick Bokanowski is a French filmmaker who makes experimental and animated films.
Michel Deguy was a French poet and translator.
Laure Adler is a French journalist, writer, publisher and radio/TV producer.
Frédéric Jacques Temple was a French poet and writer. His work includes poems, novels, travel stories and essays.
Jacques Julliard was a French historian, columnist and essayist, and a union leader. He was the author of numerous books.
Claire Lalouette is a French Egyptologist, former scientific member of the Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale and Professor at Paris-Sorbonne University.
Configuration du dernier rivage is a poetry collection by the French writer Michel Houellebecq, published by Flammarion on 17 April 2013.