Abdellah Taïa

Alberto Fernandez Carbajal (University of Roehampton)

Ed. by Anastasia Valassopoulos, University of Manchester
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.5.2.07: French Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Hugo Azerad (University of Cambridge), Patrick ffrench (King's College London), Edward Forman (University of Bristol), Akane Kawakami (Birkbeck, University of London), Siobhán McIlvanney (King's College London), Sinan Richards (King's College London), Tim Unwin (University of Bristol), David Williams (University of Sheffield)

Dates

Born 1973
Activity 2000-ongoing

Places

Born in Morocco
Active in France

Cultural Identities

Activities

Primary

Film Director
Novelist

Other

Story-writer

Resources

Taïa's Works

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Abdellah Taïa, born in Rabat in 1973, is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who has lived in Paris for most of the present century. Taïa is the second Moroccan writer, after Rachid O. (born in 1970 in Marrakech), to write about his homosexuality autobiographically, and the first Arab writer to assume it publicly without the benefit of anonymity. Taïa’s parents, Mohamed and M’Barka, from the rural Moroccan town of Ouled Brahim, where they met and married, feature prominently in his work. M’Barka’s marriage to Mohammed were her second nuptials, after her initial tragic marriage to a Moroccan soldier who died fighting for the French in Indochina. After this incident, M’Barka’s daughter was taken away by her late husband’s family. Taïa believes that these difficult experiences…

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Citation: Fernandez Carbajal, Alberto. "Abdellah Taïa". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 28 August 2016 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=13628, accessed 23 November 2024.]