Michka Assayas is a French author and music journalist. In France, he is known for his rock reviews and the Dictionnaire du rock published in 2000. For his novel Exhibition, which also appeared in a German translation, he received the Prix D�couverte Figaro Magazine Fouquet's in 2002 and the Prix des Deux Magots in 2003. The novel is a tribute to the rock and punk of the 1970s and 1980s. Additionally, Assayas wrote Bono On Bono: Conversations With Michka Assayas in 2005. It is an intimate look at Grammy award winning Paul David Hewson, better known as Bono, main vocalist of the Irish rock band U2. 

November 2nd, 1958 in Paris (Age 66)