Ann Scott

Ann Scott was born in Boulogne-Billancourt to a Russian photographer mother and a French art-collector father. She grew up in Paris and moved to London at seventeen. In the buzzy '80s music scene, she became a drummer in a punk band. She then took up a brief career as a model before returning to Paris at twenty, where she began to write. Her first novel, Asphyxie, was published ten years later. In 2000, Superstars, her second novel, became a hit upon release. In 2023, she received the Prix Renaudot for Les Insolents, her tenth book. She is also the co-author, with Nicola Sirkis, of the song "Paradize" by the rock group Indochine, whose album of the same name has sold over a million copies.