Tahar Ben Jelloun[Tahar_Ben_Jelloun]

City of Residence: Morocco (live Paris)
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Cicatrices du soleil :
Poetry 2008-06-07 (14953 hits)

Femme… :
Poetry 2008-08-19 (9072 hits)

Je suis un enfant qui se moque :
Poetry 2008-08-19 (8438 hits)

La main lape l’absence :
Poetry 2008-08-18 (8253 hits)

La remontée des cendres :
Poetry 2010-01-31 (11551 hits)

Les Femmes de Naples :
Poetry 2008-08-19 (9444 hits)

Les filles de Tanger :
Poetry 2008-06-07 (11551 hits)

Ma patrie est un visage :
Poetry 2008-06-07 (12930 hits)

Mahmoud Darwich : une terre orpheline :
Poetry 2008-08-17 (7869 hits)

Quel oiseau ivre... :
Poetry 2008-02-11 (9752 hits)

Une main crispée sur le vide :
Poetry 2008-02-11 (8734 hits)

Biography Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: ÇáØÇåÑ ÈäÌáæäý) (born in Fes, Morocco, December 1, 1944) is a Moroccan poet and writer. Professor at Tetouan and then in Casablanca. He has lived and worked in France since 1971.


He attends to lectures in social psychology and works as psychotherapist. He writes in French although his first language is Arabic. He writes for diverse reviews and in particular for Le Monde. His novel La Nuit Sacrée won the Prix Goncourt in 1987. In 2004 he was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale).

In September 2006, Tahar Ben Jelloun was awarded a special prize for "peace and friendship between people" at Lazio between Europe and the Mediterranean Festival.

On 1 February 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy awarded him the Cross of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.

Ben Jelloun is married and father of 4 children. He lives in Paris.


Selected works
Solitaire (1976)
The Sand Child (1985)
The Sacred Night (1987)
Silent Day in Tangiers (1990)
With Downcast Eyes (1991)
Corruption (1995)
The Fruits of Hard Work (1996)
Praise of Friendship (1996)
L'Auberge des pauvres, (1997)
Racism Explained to My Daughter (1998)
Islam Explained (2002)
This Blinding Absence of Light (2003)
La Belle au bois dormant, (2004)
The last friend, (2006)
Yemma, (2007)
Leaving Tangier, (2009)