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Born in Rabat, Morocco in 1973, ABDELLAH TA A has written many novels, including Salvation Army, which he also made into an award-winning film, Infidels (Seven Stories 2016), translated by Alison Strayer, and A Country for Dying (Seven Stories, 2020), which was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Emma Ramadan's translation. He lives in Paris. EMMA RAMADAN is an educator and literary translator from French. She was awarded the PEN Translation Prize for Abdellah Taia's A Country for Dying, and has also received the Albertine Prize, two NEA Fellowships, and a Fulbright. Her other translations include Anne Garreta's Sphinx, Kamel Daoud's Zabor, or the Psalms, Kaoutar Harchi's As We Exist, Marguerite Duras's The Easy Life, and Barbara Molinard's Panics.
"""Taïa’s wonderfully ferocious and contradictory heroine Malika will make you weep and quail by turn. Her testament is a powerful antidote to the sentimentality and exoticism that so often distorts depictions of Arab womanhood."" --Zoë Heller, author of Everything You Know"
