Ann Scott

Ann Scott is a French novelist born in 1965. She came to prominence with Superstars (1996), a novel about the fashion and music scene that captured the cultural mood of 1990s Paris with sharp, contemporary prose. Her fiction is known for its engagement with contemporary culture, desire, and female experience. Scott has published several novels over the following decades, maintaining a distinctive voice that combines psychological acuity with attention to the surfaces and textures of contemporary life. Her work has been compared to that of Virginie Despentes and Marie Darrieussecq in its willingness to engage directly with sexuality and power. Les Insolents (The Insolent), her 2023 Prix Renaudot winner, is a novel that explores the aftermath of a love affair and the way grief and desire can coexist. The book was praised for its stylistic confidence and its unflinching emotional honesty. Scott is one of the distinctive voices of her generation in French fiction, known for a career that has consistently refused to compromise or soften its engagement with difficult emotions.