Abdellah Taïa is one of the first openly gay autobiographical writers published in Morocco. He is the author of many books, such as Mon Maroc (My Morocco), Le rouge du tarbouche (The Red of the Fez), L’Armée du salut (Salvation Army), Une mélancolie árabe (An Arab Melancholia), and Le jour du Roi (The King’s Day), which was awarded the prestigious Prix de Flore in 2010. The English translation of his novel Infidéles (Infidels) by Alison L. Strayer has been published this year from Seven Stories Press.