Glory to Those Who Torture Us
Abdellatif Laâbi
Translated by André Naffis-Sahely
Abdellatif Laȃbi was born in Morocco in 1942. He has published seventeen collections of poetry and many novels, plays. He was imprisoned and tortured and forced into exile in France in 1985. He was awarded the Prix Goncourt for poetry in 2009 and the Grand Prix de la Francophonie by the Académie française in 20121. His autobiographical novel, The Bottom of the Jar, is forthcoming.