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Occupation
  
Novelist

Genre
  
Fiction


Literary movement
  
Postmodern

Name
  
Ann Scott

Born
  
3 November 1965 (age 58) Paris, France (
1965-11-03
)

Born to read by judy sierra book reading by ann scott


Ann Scott (born 3 November 1965 in 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 and sexual transgression. Her second novel Superstars has given her a cult status in France.

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Official Book Trailer - Empress Fallen by Bethan-Ann Scott


Biography

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

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 for three years and was one of the first tattooed fashion model to break through in prêt-à-porter and couture in the eighties.

She is now a fiction writer and the author of six novels including Superstars which has become a cult novel translated in several countries. She also publishes short stories in magazines and co-wrote Paradize for French band Indochine for their album of the same title.

Personal life

She has been romantically involved with French singer Patrick Eudeline, guitarist Lenny Kaye and other musicians from the London 1980s rock scene. She is also known to have had bisexual affairs. She dated French deejay Sextoy for three years, to whom she paid tribute after her death in her third book.

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 after declaring on the set of French TV show Nulle Part Ailleurs that she found homosexuality "immature": "Being bisexual has often brought some kind of balance to my life, but having strict homosexual relationships led to pathological experiences for me".

References

Ann Scott Wikipedia