An interview : Abdellah Taïa.

The Swedish literary magazine Karavan is publishing in its new issue (2/2022) an interview with the Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa made in Stockholm by Åsa Magnusson.

Karavan is a quarterly magazine with focus on literature from Africa, Asia and Latin America. You can find it on all the good newsagent's shop in Sweden or at the Karavan webshop.

Read the complete interview in Karavan !

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You can visit Åsa Magnussons website to find the complete collection of her texts (in Swedish); interviews, books reviews and reflexions.

Thanks to Elisabeth Grate for making this interview possible, and to Karavans editor, Birgitta Wallin.

All the Abdellah Taïas novels in Swedish are published by Elisabeth Grate Bokförlag and are translated from French by Håkan Lindquist and Davy Prieur.

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Abdellah Taïa in conversation with Åsa Magnusson, Stockholm 2022

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Abdellah Taïa, Stockholm 2022

All the portraits of Abdellah Taïa are available at the Opale Agency.

Abdellah Taïa is represented in the photo book "Portraits d’auteurs / Author portraits" (Carlssons, 2020)

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The French translator Emma Ramadan won the Pen America Literary Awards 2021...

...in the category Translation for "A Country for Dying" written by the Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa. Congratulation to her !

From the judges’ citation: “The jury is delighted to celebrate Emma Ramadan’s translation of A Country for Dying (Seven Stories Press, 2020) by Abdellah Taïa, a Moroccan novelist writing in French". Read more on the Pen America website.

The book A Country for Dying (Un pays pour mourir) is published in french at Éditions du Seuil (Paris, 2015), and in Swedish (Ett land att dö i) by Elisabeth Grate Förlag (Stockholm, 2016) in a translation by Håkan Lindquist and Davy Prieur.

All the portraits of Abdellah Taïa are available at the Opale Agency. You can also see the complete collection of author portrait at https://www.laurentdenimal.se/thecompletecollection

A portrait of Abdellah Taïa is presented in the photo book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons 2020).

Abdellah Taïa, Beyrouth 2010.

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Abdellah Taïa.

A photograph of the Moroccans writer Abdellah Taïa published in the daily Swedish newspaper Expressen (February 20, 2013), and taken in Beyrouth during the Beirut39 Literature Festival (2010).

All the portraits of Abdellah Taïa are available at the Opale Agency.

You can also see more publication at laurentdenimal.se/publication

A portrait of Abdellah Taïa is presented in the photo book "Portraits d'Auteurs / Author Portraits" (Carlssons 2020).

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