Abdellah Taïa(Is this your profile?)

Abdellah Taïa (Arabic: عبد الله الطايع; born 1973) is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1999. He has published eight novels, many of them heavily autobiographical. His books have been translated into Basque, Dutch, German, English, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, Danish and Arabic. Described by Interview Magazine as a "literary transgressor and cultural paragon," Taïa became the first openly gay Arab write...