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Mathematician, novelist, and journalist Anouar Benmalek was born in Casablanca in 1956; he has lived in France since 1992. After the 1988 riots, he cofounded the Algerian Committee against Torture. He is the author of four previous novels, including Les Amants Désunis (Éditions Calmann Lévy, 1998; The Lovers of Algeria , Graywolf, 1997), which was a best seller in France and the winner of the Rachid Mimouni Prize. His works have been translated into 10 languages. He was invited to the first Pen World Voices Festival, and he travels to the United States often to testify on torture. Recently he was in New York at the behest of the American Constitution Society and PEN American Center for the panel Writers Against Torture, which included Jane Mayer and Dahlia Lithwick. Ô Maria has been published in Spanish and in Portuguese.
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