This novel is most noteable for its apparent condoning of sex tourism and anti-Muslim feelings was by the same author who published a book of poems called what?
Michel Houellebecq Michel Houellebecq (] ; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1956) is a French author, filmmaker, and poet. Having written poetry and a biographical essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, he published his first novel, "Whatever", in 1994. "Atomised" followed in 1998, and "Platform" in 2001. He published a book of poems, "The Art of Struggle", in 1996.
Grits (novel) Grits is the debut novel by British author Niall Griffiths, published in 2000 by Jonathan Cape. Set in and around Aberystwyth and concerning promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, and petty crime it gained for its author, who lives and works in the town the dubious honorific "the Welsh Irvine Welsh". The novel is largely autobiographical, Griffiths moved to Aberystwyth to research a PhD in post-war British poetry but soon became, as he puts it, an "enthusiastic participator in parties" and dropped out of his studies.