# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/abdellah-taia
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:38:28.267Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/abdellah-taia"
name: "Abdellah Taïa"
slug: "abdellah-taia"
description: "Abdellah Taïa is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1999. He has published nine novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. His books have been translated into Arabic and many European languages."
tagline: "Moroccan writer and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Abdellah_Ta%C3%AFa_20130220.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1973-08-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.29
  momentum:             0
  historical:           16.95267066666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1655391/"
    handle:    "nm1655391"
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    handle:    "0WXu9yyGl1g7mPWGR5eT3G"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://abdellahtaia.free.fr/"
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
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    title: "Abdellah Taïa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Abdellah Taïa"
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    title: "Abdellah Taïa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q307988"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1200563"
    title: "Abdellah Taïa"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump