Michka Assayas
Michka Assayas ( born November 2, 1958 in Paris ) is a French author and music journalist. In France, he made himself by his rock reviews and by the Dictionnaire du rock 2000 published a name. For his novel Exhibition, which also appeared in German translation, he was awarded the Prix Découverte Figaro Magazine Fouquet's and the 2003 Prix des Deux Magots 2002. The novel is a tribute to the rock and punk of the 1970s and 1980s.
Life
Michka Assayas is the son of Italian-French screenwriter Raymond aka Jacques Rémy Assayas. His mother was from Hungary. His older brother Olivier Assayas is a director and screenwriter.
After graduating from the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay -Saint-Cloud, he wrote since the early 1980s for Rock & Folk focus on post-punk groups such as Joy Division and New Order. After that, he wrote editorials for Libération and for the first issue of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles. Articles written by him appeared in VSD, 7 à Paris, Actuel and Le Monde de la musique.
In 2000 he gave the Dictionnaire du rock out in 3 volumes with a total of 2650 pages. At times, he was an editor in the broadcasts of Bernard Lenoir on France Inter. For a long time with the singer Bono friends of U2, he could win this to stand as an author of a book on their joint talks in 2005.
Between 2008 and 2012 he led every Sunday by 22 clock on France Musique by sending Subjectif 21 on the history of rock music.