Maurice Attia

Maurice Attia was born in Algeria in 1949. He works as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Paris, and also writes screenplays. POLIS has already published the other two volumes in his Paco Martinez trilogy: “Alger la Noire” (winner of the 2005 Jean Amila-Meckert Award for best popular book and social critique of the year, the 2006 Michel Lebrun Prize for crime fiction, and the Mediterranean Crime Fiction Festival Prize), and “Pointe Rouge”. Maurice Attia has also published the novels “Ça va bien”, “Fautes de conduites”, “Le Carnaval des gueux”, “Rue Oberkampf”, and “Une rude journée”, as well as an academic study titled “Drames de l’adolescence, familles en séance: Récits cliniques”.