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Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون, romanized: aṭ-Ṭāhir bin Jallūn; born 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de sable (The Sand Child).
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Moroccan French novelist, poet, and essayist who wrote expressively about Moroccan culture, the immigrant experience, human rights, and sexual identity. His The Sacred Night (1987) won the Prix Goncourt.
Tahar Ben Jelloun (en arabe : الطاهر بن جلون) est un écrivain, poète et peintre franco - marocain né le 1er décembre 1947 1, 2, 3 à Fès ( Maroc ). Auteur de nouvelles, romans, poèmes et essais, il est lauréat du prix Goncourt pour son roman La Nuit sacrée .
Tahar ben Jelloun is one of France’s most celebrated writers: his most recent book, Racism Explained to My Daughter was a best-seller; and in 1987 he was awarded the Prix Goncourt for his novel The Sacred Night, which was the first book by an Arab writer to be so honored.
Jun 10, 2014 · Born in Fez, Morocco to a shopkeeper and his wife in December of 1944, Tahar Ben Jelloun is one of North Africa’s most successful post-colonial writers. Winner of France’s Prix Goncourt, Ben Jelloun moved at eighteen from Fez to Tangier where he attended a French high school until enrolling at the Université Mohammed V in Rabat ...
Jan 15, 2016 · The following is from Tahar Ben Jelloun's novel, The Happy Marriage. Jelloun is an award-winning and internationally bestselling Moroccan novelist, essayist, critic, and poet. Regularly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize, he is also a frequent contributor to Le Monde, La Repubblica, El Pais, Panorama, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.
May 5, 2006 · Brought up in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun's imprisonment and exile shaped his poetry and fiction. Resident in Paris since 1971, he portrays the experience of the north African...
