Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun (born in Fez, 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).

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Fez - 1944 - Tetouan - Casablanca - 1971 - Social psychology - Psychotherapist - Le Monde - Prix Goncourt - 1987 - International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

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