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Controversial novelist Houellebecq picks up France's top honour

Michel Houellebecq shot to worldwide fame with nihilistic novels about misogynistic men trapped in loveless existences and hooked on casual sex. [AFP]

President Emmanuel Macron has awarded the country's top honour to the controversial top-selling French novelist Michel Houellebecq, a scourge of the establishment for his bitter denunciations of modern France.

Macron bestowed the Legion d'honneur on Houellebecq at a ceremony late on Thursday, the Elysee Palace said.

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