Abdellah Taïa
Moroccan writer and journalist · Morocco · On the map · Writers · Born 1973 · age 53
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.
Abdellah Taïa is read about 73 times a day, in 18 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 10 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 144 days, one point a day.
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, What matters to me is how we see a woman who is considered by so many people as weak, illiterate, dominated - when in fact she was not dominated. She did not feel weak.
The world is violent everywhere. I live in Paris - do you think it is calm? Racism, fascism are everywhere.
I was born into a big, poor Moroccan family. Reading was seen as something bourgeois - something for those who didn’t have money problems; something for those who weren’t hungry.
