{"id":7494,"date":"2010-11-08T09:41:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T14:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2018-12-10T16:12:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:12:08","slug":"houellebecq-wins-goncourt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/08\/houellebecq-wins-goncourt\/","title":{"rendered":"Houellebecq Wins Goncourt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michel Houellebecq has finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5i-o5v7Sqvpd74qoSufsYjZr_gfgw?docId=62fc4ce566314993bbbf15681ee6bb76\">received the Prix Goncourt<\/a>, France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize. As Susannah Hunnewell suggested in our current issue, the honor is overdue. Click <a href=\"\/interviews\/6040\/the-art-of-fiction-no-206-michel-houellebecq\">here<\/a> to read the most in-depth interview with Houellebecq available in English.<\/p>\n<p>As our diarist Nelly Kaprielian <a href=\"\/blog\/2010\/09\/15\/a-week-in-culture-nelly-kaprielian-critic\/\">reported<\/a> last September in <em>The Paris Review<\/em> Daily, Houellebecq is still living hard. He has aged visibly in the last couple of years. He even tells her that his latest novel,<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.fr\/carte-territoire-Michel-Houellebecq\/dp\/2081246333\"> La carte et le territoire<\/a><\/em>, may be his last. We hope and trust that time will prove him wrong.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, we send our most heartfelt congratulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel Houellebecq has finally received the Prix Goncourt, France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize. As Susannah Hunnewell suggested in our current issue, the honor is overdue. 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As our diarist Nelly Kaprielian reported last September in The Paris Review Daily, Houellebecq is still living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1270,822,867,825],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-letter-from-the-editor","tag-la-carte-et-le-territoire","tag-michel-houellebecq","tag-nelly-kaprielian","tag-prix-goncourt"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Houellebecq Wins Goncourt by Lorin Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"November 8, 2010 \u2013 Michel Houellebecq has finally received the Prix Goncourt, France\u2019s most prestigious literary prize. 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