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Ann Scott
Born	(1965-11-03) 3 November 1965 (age 59) Paris, France
Occupation	Novelist
Genre	Fiction
Literary movement	Postmodern
Website
annscott.fr

Ann Scott (born 3 November 1965) is a French novelist. She is regarded as a social realist for her novels which paint portraits of contemporary youth and her second novel Superstars has given her a cult status in France.^[1]

Biography

She was born and raised in Paris, France. Her mother is a photographer of Russian descent, and her father is a French businessman and art collector.

During the mid-eighties, at age 17, she left home and moved to London, England, where she became a musician, playing drums with local rock bands. She then later turned to fashion modelling for two years and was one of the first tattooed fashion models to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties.^[2] Then at 21, on her return to Paris, she started writing fiction.

She is now the author of ten novels including Superstars which has become cult and has been translated in several countries. Her novel Cortex depicts a domestic terrorist attack at the Academy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles and parts ways with her previous themes. The follow-up, La Grâce et les ténèbres (Grace and Darkness), highlights cyber-surveillance and the fight against jihadist propaganda on social networks alongside a group of French citizens named the Katiba des Narvalos.^[3]

Her last novel, Les Insolents, published in 2023, is about living in solitude by the sea and has won her the Prix Renaudot in France. ^[4]

She co-wrote Paradize for the French band Indochine for their album of the same title which sold over a million copies in France.

Personal life

She has been romantically involved with several rock musicians and is also known to have had bisexual affairs.^[5] She dated French deejay Sextoy for three years, to whom she paid tribute after her death in her third Superstars.

Before she became published, she shared a flat in Paris with French writer Virginie Despentes. She was close friends to Daul Kim and Lee Alexander McQueen and paid them tribute in the French magazine Libération.

Controversy

She was strongly rejected by a part of the French gay and lesbian community^{[citation needed]} after declaring on the set of French TV show Nulle Part Ailleurs that she found homosexuality "immature":^[6] "Being bisexual has often brought some kind of balance to my life, but having strict homosexual relationships led to pathological experiences for me".^[7]

Bibliography

Published (in French)	Original title
1996	Asphyxie
2000	Superstars
2002	Poussières d'anges
2004	Le pire des mondes
2005	Héroïne
2008	Les chewing gums ne sont pas biodégradables
2010	A la folle jeunesse
2017	Cortex
2020	La Grâce et les ténèbres
2023	Les Insolents

References

^ Le Monde, 20 August 2001
^ Femme Actuelle, 2000 Archived 30 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine
^ "Presentation of Ann Scott's book "La Grace et les ténèbres" by her editor". Calmann-Levy on Youtube (in French). Retrieved 18 June 2020.
^ Chrisafis, Angelique; @achrisafis (8 December 2023). "'The drugs were good, the music was good, the sex was good' – cult French writer Ann Scott on her techno years". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
^ Buzz Littéraire
^ Nova, February 2001
^ Nulle Part Ailleurs, Canal Plus, 1 January 2001

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