Abdellah Taïa

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Abdellah Taïa (b. 1973, Rabat) is the first Moroccan and Arab writer to publicly declare his homosexuality. Editions du Seuil has published five of his books, including L’armée du salut (2006; Eng. Salvation Army, 2009), Une mélancolie arabe (2008; Eng. An Arab Melancholy, 2012), and Lettres à un jeune marocain (2009). His novel Le jour du Roi was awarded the prestigious French Prix de Flore in 2010, and his latest novel, Infidèles, came out in 2012. Taïa’s work has been translated into several languages, and he also appeared in Rémi Lange’s film The Road to Love (2001). His American publisher is Semiotext(e).

  • The cover to A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa

    A Country for Dying by Abdellah Taïa

    Abdellah Taïa
    Trans. Emma Ramadan. New York. Seven Stories Press. 2020. 144 pages. A POCKETABLE, one-sitting read, Abdellah Taïa’s A Country for Dying is an engrossing transcontinental an…

  • Turning Thirty

    September 2013
    Abdellah Taïa
    On the eve of his thirtieth birthday, the narrator recounts three near-death experiences and his journey from Morocco to France. With nods toward Dostoevsky and Genet (echoing the Lazarus scene be…

  • An Arab Melancholia by Abdellah Taïa

    Abdellah Taïa
    Frank Stock, tr. Los Angeles. Semiotext(e) (MIT Press, distr.). 2012. ISBN 9781584351115Abdellah Taïa’s Une mélancolie arabe was published in 2008 in Paris, where he now lives. It is in many…