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Abdellah Taïa ((アラビア語:عبد الله الطايع); born 1973) is a Moroccan writer and filmmaker who writes in the French language and has been based in Paris since 1998. He has published eight novels, many of them heavily autobiographical.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Gay Maroc )〕 His books have been translated into Basque,〔 (Books by Abdellah Taïa translated into Basque ).〕 Dutch, English, Italian, Romanian, Spanish,〔Brouksy, Omar (1 January 2011). ("Moroccan Writer Taia Challenges Homosexual Taboo" ). Agence France Presse (via ''Sin Chew Daily''). Retrieved 14 April 2014.〕 Swedish〔().〕 and Arabic.〔(يوم الملك ).〕 Described by ''Interview Magazine'' as a “literary transgressor and cultural paragon,”〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Interview Magazine )〕 Taïa became the first openly gay Arab writer in 2006,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work =Semio Texte )〕 and as of 2014 he remains the only openly homosexual Moroccan writer or filmmaker. His first movie, ''Salvation Army'', is widely considered to have given Arab cinema “its first gay protagonist.” Since his coming-out, according to one source, Taïa “has become an iconic figure in his homeland of Morocco and throughout the Arab world, and a beacon of hope in a country where homosexuality is illegal.”〔 ==Early life and education== Taïa was born in 1973 in Rabat, Morocco. According to the ''New York Times'', Taïa “was born inside the public library of Rabat…where his dad worked as a janitor and where his family lived until he was 2.” He grew up in Hay Salam, a neighborhood of Salé, a town near Rabat. His family was poor. He had nine siblings. He first came into contact with literature through his father’s job at the library.〔 Taïa lived in Hay Salam from 1974 to 1998. He has described the experience:〔 As a young boy, he touched a high-voltage power generator and was unconscious and presumed dead for an hour. After he woke up he was labeled "the miracle boy". In 2010 he said: "I still have some of the electricity I got that day. I was somewhere during that 'dead time,' but where, I don't know. Perhaps the reason I write is because I want to know the answer to that question." Taïa was an effeminate boy who "always knew he was gay".〔 For most of his childhood, according to the ''New York Times'', "he hid his sexuality as best he could, but his effeminate demeanor brought mockery and abuse, although it would later become a source of artistic inspiration."〔 His family "probably always knew" he was gay, he later said, but they "never talked about it."〔 When he was 11, a mob of men gathered outside his family's home and shouted for him to come out to be raped. "Everyone heard, not only my family but the whole neighbourhood," he later recalled. "What I saw clearly was that this is how society functions and that no one can protect you, not even your parents. That's when I realized I had to hide who I am."〔 He described this incident at length in a 2012 op-ed for the ''New York Times'', entitled "A Boy to Be Sacrificed": Taïa’s older brother, Abdelk'bir, was a cultural influence on Taïa, introducing him to the music of David Bowie, James Brown, and Queen, the films of David Cronenberg, Elia Kazan, and Ang Lee, and the books of Robert Louis Stevenson, Dostoevsky, and Tawfik al-Hakim.〔 He "spent his childhood watching Egyptian movies, detailing them in a scrapbook where he collected pictures of movie stars he admired, like Faten Hamama and Souad Hosni," according to the ''New York Times''. "The freedom in Egyptian cinema, where women appeared without veils and alcohol was consumed openly, pervaded his living room and gave him hope."〔 He has said that Egyptian films were "the only culture that we had access to in Morocco, as a poor family.... They taught us a lot about love, about society, about ourselves. And as a homosexual, they pretty much saved me, because they allowed me to escape to this whole other world."〔 He has also said that "Egyptian movies saved me.... There was already the idea of transgression through television happening in my house with my sisters. In my head, I connected that to homosexuality."〔 At age thirteen, he "decided that one day () would go to Paris in order to be what () wanted to be: A director and filmmaker."〔 Taïa's parents "stressed education and sent five of their nine children to university."〔 He studied French literature while living in Rabat, "his gaze set upon Paris and the possibilities that city represented to him, namely a career in film."〔 Taïa said in 2010 that "It was clear to me that eventually I had to get to Paris, because this was the city of Isabelle Adjani.... This was the city of Rimbaud and Marcel Proust.... The target was to go there to be free as a homosexual, but at the same time to achieve these dreams–to write movies and books, and to dream big, if I may say that."〔〔 (). Yahoo! News.〕 When he began college, he "realized that my French was really poor. To master it, I decided to write my diary in French. For me that was the best way to be confronted with the language, to have a relationship with it without any mediation or intercession. My literary writing emerged from this relationship and that diary, which I kept for many years in Morocco. That's how I became a writer."〔 His French skills "improved so much," thanks largely to his diary, "that he won a scholarship to study 18th-century French literature in Geneva."〔 He went to Switzerland in 1998〔 and studied there for a semester.〔 In 1999〔 he went to the Sorbonne, on another scholarship, to work on his doctoral thesis.〔〔 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."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Abdellah Taïa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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