Tahar Ben Jelloun

b. 1944

2 standalone books

Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan-born French writer, poet, and painter. He was born on December 1, 1944, in Fes, Morocco. He studied philosophy in Rabat and later moved to France, where he studied psychology. He has worked as a professor and currently practices as a psychotherapist. Although his native language is Arabic, he writes in French. His novel La Nuit sacrée won the Prix Goncourt in 1987. In 2004, he received the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for Cette aveuglante absence de lumière, translated into English as This Blinding Absence of Light. In 2008, he was awarded the Cross of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.

Born

1944