Mahi Binebine still lives in Marrakech, where he was born in 1959. He is a prize-winning author (Prix méditerranée and the Prix de l’amitié Franco-Arabe) and a successful and respected painter whose work has been displayed at the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Venice Biennale. Binebine’s previous novel Cannibales (Fayard, 1999) was translated into English by Granta as Welcome to Paradise in 2004.
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