Ann Scott

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Ann Scott , a pseudonym, (born November 3, 1965 in Boulogne-Billancourt , France ) is a French writer .

Life

The daughter of a Russian-born photographer and a French art collector, grew up in Paris with her brother, who was adopted in Colombia, and moved to London at the age of 17 . There she played as a drummer in punk groups . According to her own statements, she was addicted to heroin from the age of 17 to 26 , but has since refrained from drugs. She worked as a catwalk model for three years , including for Vivienne Westwood , John Galliano , Yohji Yamamoto , Comme des Garçons , and Jean-Paul Gaultier, and as a photo model. She was hired for advertising campaigns for the company L'Oréal and the English hairdresser Vidal Sassoon and worked with renowned photographers such as Nick Knight , Paolo Roversi and Dominique Tarlé . It was their front pages dedicated editorial articles in various English, Italian and French magazines.

At the age of 20 she began, including through the reading of American authors such as William S. Burroughs , Hubert Selby , John Fante , Jack Kerouac and Truman Capote , for the literature to be interested. The publisher and writer Michel Luneau encouraged her to write.

In London, Ann Scott was the partner of various musicians. She was also in a relationship with rock music critic Patrick Eudeline, musician Lenny Kayne, journalist Axelle Ledauphin and female DJ Delphine Palatsi.

She wears over twenty tattoos on her upper body and arms, which she hides under long-sleeved clothing and which she said she would "certainly do without" today because they were "difficult to wear".

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The themes that recur in Ann Scott's novels, some of which are autobiographical, are music (rock'n'roll in asphyxia , techno music in superstars ), drugs ( asphyxia , superstars , Poussières d'anges ), death ( asphyxia , Poussières d 'ange , Le Pire des mondes ) as well as bi- and homosexuality ( superstars , Héroïne ).

Anne Scott is, together with the lyricist Nicola Sirkis, the author of the song Paradize on the album of the same name by the new wave rock group Indochine .

Factory selection

  • 1996: Asphyxia , Paris, Florent Massot, ISBN 2-908382-33-4
  • 1998: Foreword to M & M's photo book Normal People , Paris, Crash Editions, ISBN 2-913049-00-1
  • 2000: Superstars , Paris, Flammarion, ISBN 2-08-067837-X
  • 2002: Poussières d'anges , Paris, Librio, ISBN 2-290-31859-0
  • 2004: Le Pire des mondes , Paris, Flammarion, ISBN 2-08-068186-9
  • 2005: Heroïne , Paris, Flammarion, ISBN 2-08-068707-7
  • 2008: Les chewing-gums ne sont pas biodégradables , Paris, Scali
  • 2010: À la folle jeunesse , Paris, Stock
  • 2017: Cortex , Paris, Stock
  • 2020: La Grâce et les ténèbres , Paris, Calmann-Lévy

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Interview in Technikart, 2001
  2. ↑ "si c'était à refaire je m'abstiendrais certainement car maintenant je les trouve difficiles à porter" , Vogue, February 2002
personal data
SURNAME Scott, Ann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Boulogne-Billancourt , France