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Source: Michka Assayas, on French Wikipedia

Michka Assayas
Michka Assayas is a French journalist and writer, born 2 November 1958.

Biography
He is the son of Raymond Assayas, said Jacques Rémy, screenwriter and writer, and the brother of director Olivier Assayas. Former student of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Fontenay-Saint-Cloud, he worked in the early 80's rock & folk where he ardently defended some post-punk bands like Joy Division in 1981, and New Order in 1983. Assayas also worked for Libération. He was also a columnist in the first version of the magazine Les Inrockuptibles and has written for VSD, 7 à Paris, Actuel, and Le Monde de la musique. He was the prime contractor for the "Dictionnaire du rock" (3 volumes, 2650 pages) which was published in 2000 by Éditions Robert Laffont, and was a columnist time in issuing Bernard Lenoir on France Inter. Longtime friend of the singer Bono of U2, he finally convinced him to write a book of 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, 21 Subjective on France Musique.