Controversial satirist Michel Houellebecq received France's top literary award Monday. "La Carte et le Territoire" (The Map and the Territory, published by Flammarion), Houellebecq's best-selling send-up of Paris' artistic society earned the Prix Goncourt, the prize committee announced. Houellebecq is considered by many to be France's greatest living writer, and fans considered the Goncourt long [...]
