Abdellah Taïa

Actor, Film director

1973 –

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Who is Abdellah Taïa?

Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer who writes in French and based in Paris since 1998. His works have been translated into Basque, Dutch, English, Romanian, Spanish and Swedish.

Taïa grew up in a family with 9 siblings in Salé, Morocco. He first came into contact with literature through his father, who was a janitor at the local library in Rabat. As a gay teenager, he was confronted with the homophobia and machismo in Moroccan society.

He studied French literature while living in Rabat. During the mid-1990s he left Morocco for Switzerland in order to study for a semester in Geneva. He later studied at the Sorbonne in Paris.

In 2007 he publicly came out of the closet in an interview with the literary magazine TelQuel, which created controversy in Morocco.

Taïa's books deal with his life living in a homophobic society and have autobiographical background on the social experiences of the generation of Moroccans who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s.

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Born
1973
Salé
Also known as
  • Abdellah Taia
Nationality
  • Morocco
Profession

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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