Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): Text:  Michel Houellebecq (French: [miʃɛl wɛlbɛk]; born Michel Thomas; 26 February 1956) is a controversial and award-winning French author filmmaker and poet. Having written poetry and a biography of the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft he published his first novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994. Les Particules élémentaires followed in 1998 and Plateforme in 2001.
Output (English): 3