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 Ann Scott, Paris, 2005 |
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| Born | 3 November 1965 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genres | Fiction |
| Literary movement | Postmodern |
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Ann Scott (b. 3 November 1965, Paris, France) is a French novelist.
She is regarded as a social realist for her novels, which paint detailed portraits of contemporary youth haunted by teenage boredom, drugs, materialism, status obsession and social trangression. Her second novel Superstars has given her a cult status in France.[1].
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She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a news photographer of Russian descent, and her father, a French businessman and art collector who was the first to buy Jean-Michel Basquiat's work in France. She has a step sister and a step brother.
At age 16, she moved alone to London, England where she became a musician, playing drums with local punk bands. At 18, she turned to fashion modelling (with agencies City Models, in Paris, and Storm Models Management, in London) and became the first tattooed fashion model to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties [2]. She modelled for three years from 1985 to 1988 and worked with Nick Knight, Ellen von Unwerth, Paolo Roversi. She did runway shows for Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, Yohji Yamamoto, Comme des Garçons, Jean-Paul Gaultier, advertising campaigns for L'Oréal and for English hair salon Vidal Sassoon, magazines covers including I-D and The Face, and spreads for English, Italian and French fashion magazines such as Vogue, Lei, Harpers & Queen and Tatler.
She is now a fiction writer and the author of several novels including Superstars which has become a cult novel translated in several countries.
She discovered literature in her early twenties reading American writers such as William S. Burroughs, Hubert Selby Jr, John Fante, Jack Kerouac and Truman Capote. A meeting with French publisher and writer Michel Luneau convinced her to start writing. She published several short stories in French magazines but her first two novels were unpublished, until in 1996, she met Florent Massot, who had published Virginie Despentes's Baise-moi.
Asphyxie, her first published novel, was inspired by Nirvana and its singer Kurt Cobain, and Ann Scott was the first writer in France to write a novel inspired by a rock band and the first to pay tribute to Cobain.
Superstars, published in 2000 by Flammarion, is a manifesto of the techno culture which gave her instant cult author status. A movie based on the book is in pre-production.
Poussières d'anges, her next book published in 2002, is a series of portraits of deceased people (River Phoenix, Joey Ramone, Johnny Thunders, Edie Sedgwick...).
Le pire des mondes, her third novel published in 2004, is on urban paranoïa and was often compared to Brett Easton Ellis's American psycho.[3]
Héroïne, her fourth novel published in 2005, on love obsession, is considered a follow up to Superstars, although this time it's a huit clos.
Les chewing gums ne sont pas biodegradables, her sixth book, is a novella published with drawings by Gabriel Gay. The author invites a famous American writer for the summer and is left with the impossible task of trying to put up with his demands.
All the books are translated into several languages but not yet
into English.
She has also written songs for bands, the most well-known one being
Paradize for French band Indochine for their album of the same
title. She has also published several short stories in various
french magazines and french and European anthologies of collected
short stories.
She is often regarded as a social realist like Brett Easton Ellis or Jay McInerney and is said to be mostly influenced by Balzac and Truman Capote.[4]
Bisexuality is a theme in her writing.[5]
She has several tattoos. She says about them that, "if I had to do them all over again, I probably wouldn't as I now find them hard to wear".[6]
She was strongly rejected by a part of the French gay and lesbian community after declaring on the set of French TV show Nulle Part Ailleurs that she found homosexuality "immature"[7] : "Being bisexual has often brought some kind of balance to my life, but having strict homosexual relationships led to pathological experiences for me ".[8]
| Published (in French) | Original title |
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| 1996 | Asphyxie |
| 2000 | Superstars |
| 2002 | Poussières d'anges |
| 2004 | Le pire des mondes |
| 2005 | Héroïne |
| 2008 | Les chewing gums ne sont pas biodégradables |
All titles in paperback by J'ai lu Publishers.
   | Small photo gallery - Ann Scott | Ados.fr |
| | - Author's page on MySpace - MySpace.com - livinadream - 22 - Female - Castellbisbal, ES - myspace.com/ann_s |
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