Murmures
A conversation with Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa
septembre 2012 | Divers | Littérature / édition | Maroc
Source : Sampsonia Way
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Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa was born in 1973 in Rabat. Reared in the town of Salé by working-class parents-his father worked as a janitor in a local library, exposing Taïa to books at an early age-the family stressed education and sent five of their nine children to university. Taïa elected to study French Literature at the University of Rabat, his gaze set upon Paris and the possibilities that city represented to him, namely a career in film. Eventually he landed at the Sorbonne.
In Paris Taïa broke away from what he saw as the oppressive confines of his family and Moroccan society and began a process of self-actualization. At the start of his literary career, Taïa publicly declared his homosexuality in the magazine TelQuel (…)
[Lire l’intégralité de l’article de Joe Edgar publié dans le magazine Sampsonia Way]
In Paris Taïa broke away from what he saw as the oppressive confines of his family and Moroccan society and began a process of self-actualization. At the start of his literary career, Taïa publicly declared his homosexuality in the magazine TelQuel (…)
[Lire l’intégralité de l’article de Joe Edgar publié dans le magazine Sampsonia Way]
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