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Abdellah Taïa


Born
in Sale, Morocco
January 01, 1973

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Genre
Gay & Lesbian, Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction


Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer born in Salé in 1973. He grew up in a neighborhood called “Hay Salam” located between Salé and Rabat, where his father Mohammed works at the General Library of the capital. His mother M’Barka, an illiterate housewife, gives so much meaning to his days and accompanies his sleep with her nocturnal melodies. This son of a working-class district and second youngest of a household of ten children is the first Moroccan writer to publicly assume his homosexuality.

Abdellah Taïa has been living in Paris since 1999, where he obtained a doctorate in Letters at La Sorbonne University while managing to write 5 books. The last one, called “an Arabian melancholia”, was just published by “Seuil” on March 6th of 2008

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Average rating: 3.75 · 6,227 ratings · 901 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors
El que es digno de ser amado
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Salvation Army
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An Arab Melancholia
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A Country for Dying
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Le bastion des larmes
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Living in Your Light
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La vida lenta
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Infidèles
3.54 avg rating — 318 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions
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Le Jour du Roi
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Mi Marruecos
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“Lose myself entirely, the better to find myself. To summon, one gray and very cold morning, an army for my own salvation”
― Abdellah Taïa, Salvation Army
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“Sex, regardless of who we have it with, should never scare us.”
― Abdellah Taïa, Salvation Army
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“True love, the kind that lasts and survives for years, is always full of passion and craziness.”
― Abdellah Taïa, Salvation Army
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