Michka Assayas

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Michka Assayas

Michka Assayas (born November 2, 1958 in Paris ) is a French author and music journalist . In France he made a name for himself through his rock reviews and the Dictionnaire du rock published in 2000 . For his novel Exhibition , which was also published in German translation, he received the Prix ​​Découverte Figaro Magazine-Fouquet's in 2002 and the Prix ​​des Deux Magots in 2003 . The novel pays homage to rock and punk of the 1970s and 1980s.

Life

Michka Assayas is the son of the Italian-French screenwriter Raymond Assayas, aka Jacques Rémy . His mother is from Hungary. His older brother Olivier Assayas is a director and screenwriter.

After graduating from the École normal supérieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud , he has been writing for Rock & Folk since the early 1980s, focusing on post-punk groups such as Joy Division and New Order . He then wrote editorials for Liberation and for the first issue of Les Inrockuptibles magazine . His contributions have appeared in VSD , 7 à Paris , Actuel and Le Monde de la musique .

In 2000 he published the Dictionnaire du rock in 3 volumes with a total of 2,650 pages. At times he was editor of Bernard Lenoir's programs on France Inter . Long friends with the singer Bono from U2 , he was able to convince him to write a book about their mutual conversations in 2005.

Between 2008 and 2012 he performed every Sunday at 10 p.m. on France Musique through the program Subjectif 21 on the history of rock music.

Works

Novels

  • 1990: Les années vides
  • 1994: Dans sa peau
  • 2002: Exhibition
    • German translation: Too true to be beautiful . Translated from the French by Brigitte Große. Cologne: DuMont-Literatur-und-Kunst-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8321-7841-4
  • 2009: Solo
  • 2011: Faute d'identité

Chronicles

  • 1991: Contre-feu

About rock

  • 1996: Les Beatles et les années 60 (with Claudius)
  • 2000: Dictionnaire du rock (editor)
  • 2005: Bono par Bono , conversations with Michka Assayas
    • German translation: Bono on Bono: Conversations with Michka Assayas . Translated from the English by Kristian Lutze. Cologne: Kiepenheuer and Witsch, 2005, ISBN 3-462-03473-1
  • 2005: John Lennon: unfinished music (with Claude Chastagner, Emma Lavigne and Grazia Caroni)
  • 2009: New-wave, Photo-Journal 1977-1983 (with Pierre René Worms)

Scripts

Forewords

  • 1987: Le feu à sa vie by Jean-René Huguenin
  • 2004: Syd Barrett: le génie perdu de Pink Floyd de Tim Willis . Foreword to the French translation by Marina Dick and Jean-Michel Espitallier
  • 2006: Les 1001 albums qu'il faut avoir écoutés dans sa vie: Rock, Hip Hop, Soul, Dance, World music, Pop, Techno ...

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Assayas, Michka (1958 -....) at the Bibliothèque nationale de France
  2. ↑ 2002 literature prizes at prix-litteraires.net
  3. ↑ literary awards 2003 prix-litteraires.net
  4. ↑ Michka Assayas: Too true to be beautiful at perlentaucher.de
  5. ↑ Michka Assayas. In: Rock & Folk. No. 170, March 1981
  6. ↑ Michka Assayas. In: Rock & Folk. No. 196, May 1983
  7. ↑ Subjectif 21 ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at radiofrance.fr @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.radiofrance.fr
personal data
SURNAME Assayas, Michka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author and music journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris