Abdellah Taia

Morocco, France

Abdellah Taia  (Morocco) is the first openly gay autobiographical writer published in Morocco. He is the author of Mon Maroc and Le rouge du tarbouche, both translated into Dutch and Spanish. He also appeared in Rémi Lange's 2004 film Tarik el Hob (released in English as The Road to Love).  His novel L’Armée du Salut was published earlier this year in England and the United States as Salvation Army (Semiotexte/Smart Art), translated by Frank Stockton, with an introduction by Edmund White. He lives in Paris. In French.

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