In Translation: Abdellah Taïa on Living in Your Light with Emma Ramadan and David Ebershoff

French-Moroccan novelist Abdellah Taïa is known for his bold, humanizing portraits of marginalized characters living in North Africa. His most recent novel, Living in Your Light, follows protagonist Malika from age seventeen to old age as she confronts and struggles against the vestiges of French rule following Morocco’s independence.

Don’t miss this powerful conversation between Taïa and his translator Emma Ramadan about the evolution of Moroccan queer literature and the importance of bringing translated literature into the mainstream. David Ebershoff, Vice President & Editor-in-Chief of Hogarth, Executive Editor at Random House, and author of The Danish Girl, will moderate. A signing will follow the event.