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The English translation of the novel «A Country For Dying» by Moroccan writer and filmmaker Abdellah Taïa was shortlisted for the 2021 Pen America Literary Awards, for the «Pen Translation Prize» category.
«A Country For Dying» was translated into English by Emma Ramadan and published by Seven Stories Press, wrote Abdellah Taïa on his Facebook page.
«Thank you to Pen America and to the jury. Also, thank you so so so much to my translator, the fabulous Emma Ramadan, to everyone in Seven Stories Press, to Bill Clegg, to Marion Duvert and to les Editions du Seuil... I am more than happy and honored to be nominated for this prize», he wrote.
«Wishing a warm congratulations to Abdellah Taïa on being shortlisted for the Pen America Literary Awards 2021!» wrote the US embassy in Rabat, congratulating the writer.
«A country For Dying» tells the story of Zahira, a Moroccan prostitute in France and retraces, through her, «fragments of the lives of women and men pushed towards the West by the misery of their fate and who come up against a postcolonial universe which does not recognize them and which does not understand them».
