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Mishka Assayas

Mishka Assayas is a French journalist and writer, born November 2, 1958 [1].

Summary

   1 Biography
   2 Works
       2.1 Novels
       2.2 Chronicles
       2.3 On the rock
       2.4 Scenarios
       2.5 Prefaces
   3 Notes and references

Biography

He is the son of the screenwriter and writer Raymond Assayas aka Jacques Remy and the brother of director Olivier Assayas.

A former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, he worked in the early 80's for Rock & Folk where he ardently defended some post-punk bands like Joy Division and New Order in 1981 [2] and 1983 [3]. Assayas also worked for Liberation. He was also a columnist in the first version of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles and wrote for VSD, 7 à Paris, Actuel, Le Monde de la musique. He acted as editor of the Dictionary of rock (3 volumes, 2650 pages) published in 2000 by Editions Robert Laffont, and was for some time an editor for Bernard Lenoir on France Inter. A longtime friend of the singer Bono of U2, he finally convinced him to write a book based on his interviews published in 2005. From September 2008 to June 2012, he hosted a weekly show on Sunday at 22 pm on the history of rock, Subjective 21, on France Musique [4].

Works

Romans

   1990: Empty year
   1994: In her skin
   2002: Exhibition, Prix des Deux Magots
   2009: Solo
   2011: Without identity

Chronicles

   1991: Backfire

On the rock

   1996: The Beatles and the 60s (with Claudius)
   2000 Dictionary of the rock (as publisher)
   2005: Bono on Bono, conversations with Mishka Assayas
   2005: John Lennon: unfinished music (with Claude Chastagner, Emma Lavigne and Grazia Caroni).
   2009: New Wave, Photo-Journal from 1977 to 1983 (with Pierre René Worms).

Scenarios

   1991: Sushi Sushi, director Laurent Perrin
   1992: Sam enough, director Virginia Thevenet

Prefaces

   1987: Fire in the life by Jean-René Huguenin
   2004: Syd Barrett: le génie perdu de Pink Floyd de Tim Willis. 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...

Notes and references

   [1]↑ Assayas, Mishka (1958 - ....) [archive] FRBNF12094628 no instructions, catalog Bn-Opale Plus, BnF. Created April 20, 1984, updated on 21 December 2000.
   [2]↑ Mishka Assayas. Rock & Folk. No. 170, March 1981.
   [3]↑ Mishka Assayas. Rock & Folk. No. 196, May 1983.
   [4]↑ The show Subjective 21 [archive], on the site of Radio France.

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Categories:

   French writer of the twentieth century
   French journalist of the twentieth century
   French journalist twenty-first century
   Winner of the Deux Magots
   Student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud-Lyon
   Born in 1958