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Tahar Ben Jelloun

تلك العتمة الباهرة
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The Sand Child
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Le racisme expliqué à ma fille

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حين تترنح ذاكرة أمي
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أن ترحل
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The Sacred Night

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Căsătorie de plăcere
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A Palace in the Old Village
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The Last Friend
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Islam Explained
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Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan writer

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون, romanized:&#;aṭ-Ṭāhir bin Jallūn; born 1 December ) is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his novel L'Enfant de sable (The Sand Child). All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Early life and career

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Morocco in December As a child, he attended an Arabic-French bilingual elementary school. He then studied in the Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Morocco, until he was 18 years old. He studied philosophy at Mohammed V University in Rabat.

After he was a professor of philosophy in Morocco, he joined the group that ran the literary magazine Souffles in the mids, and he wrote many pieces for the cultural magazine. He later participated in the student rebellion against the repressive and violent acts of the Moroccan police. In , he was forced into military service as his punishment.

Five years later, his first poems were published in Hommes sous linceul de silence (). Shortly thereafter he moved to Paris to study psychology, and in began writing for Le Monde. He received his doctorate in social psychiatry in

In January , Ben Jelloun was nominated one of the two candidates for the 16th seat of the Académie Française, the moderating body of the French language. This seat was last held by Léopold Sédar Senghor. A month later, Ben Jelloun ended his campaign for the position.

Today, Ben Jelloun is known for his literary career but also his appearances on French media outlets in which he speaks about the experiences of people of North African descent living in France. He lives in Paris and continues to write.

Writing career

Ben Jelloun's novel L’Enfant de Sable (translated as The Sand Child) brought widespread attention. In , he received the Prix Goncourt for his novel La Nuit Sac

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