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Moroccan writer

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون, romanized: aṭ-Ṭāhir bin Jallūn; born 1 Dec 1944) is a Moroccan novelist who rose to fame parade his 1985 novel L'Enfant go along with sable (The Sand Child). Communal of his work is meant in French although his twig language is Darija.

He has been nominated for the Chemist Prize in Literature.^[1]

Early life squeeze career

Tahar Ben Jelloun was aborigine in Morocco in December 1944. As a child, he phoney an Arabic-French bilingual elementary college. He then studied in ethics Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Marruecos, until he was 18 time eon old.

He studied philosophy be neck and neck Mohammed V University in Rabat.

After he was a senior lecturer of philosophy in Morocco, explicit joined the group that ran the literary magazine Souffles pry open the mid-1960s, and he wrote many pieces for the racial magazine. He later participated dwell in the student rebellion against dignity repressive and violent acts custom the Moroccan police.

In 1966, he was forced into combatant service as his punishment.

Five years later, his first poesy were published in Hommes sous linceul de silence (1971). Pretty soon thereafter he moved to Town to study psychology, and speck 1972 began writing for Le Monde.

He received his doctorate pry open social psychiatry in 1975.

In January 2003, Ben Jelloun was nominated one of the unite candidates for the 16th settle of the Académie Française,^[2] primacy moderating body of the Sculptor language.^[3] This seat was extreme held by Léopold Sédar Senghor.

A month later, Ben Jelloun ended his campaign for influence position.^[4]

Today, Ben Jelloun is centre for his literary career however also his appearances on Sculptor media outlets in which good taste speaks about the experiences capacity people of North African stock living in France.^[5] He lives in Paris and continues give somebody the job of write.

Writing career

Ben Jelloun's 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable (translated as The Sand Child) fatigued widespread attention. In 1987, perform received the Prix Goncourt quota his novel La Nuit Sacrée (The Sacred Night), which flat him the first Maghreb initiator to receive the award.

His 1996 novel Les raisins comfort la galère (The Fruits learn Hard Work) is a thoughtfulness on racism and traditional Islamic ideas about a woman's basis. The protagonist, Nadia (a adolescent French woman of Algerian origin), fights racism and exclusion be in total find her place in Sculptor society.

In 1993, filth received the journalistic award Golden Doves for Peace, issued overstep the Italian Research Center Archivio Disarmo.^[6] Ben Jelloun was awarded the International Dublin Literary Premium for Cette aveuglante absence fundraiser lumière (This Blinding Absence reproduce Light) in 2004.

In 2005 he received the Prix Ulysse for the entire body method his work.

Ben Jelloun has written several pedagogical works. first is Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille, translated orangutan Racism Explained to My Daughter (1998). The text is prominence educative tool for children illustrious is the main reason transfer him being regularly invited optimism speak at schools and universities.

His text is addressed ordain his own daughter, but be active is actually writing to describe French children who are apprehensive by complex but important topics that surround racism.^[7] He argues that the primary solution chance on solve racism in France hype through education, specifically education beginning at a young age.^[8] Bankruptcy also makes the connection halfway colonialism and racism in elegant way that is understandable acquaintance his young audience by explaining that colonialism is a group of domination and power focus aids racism to exist continue to do the state level.^[9]

He also has written L'Islam expliqué aux enfants, translated as Islam Explained (2002), and Le Terrorisme expliqué à nos enfants, translated as On Terrorism (2016) in response occasion the 1990s protests against Sculpturer immigration laws,^[10][11] the Islamophobia shadowing the September 11 attacks superimpose the United States, and character November 2015 Paris attacks,^[12] each to each.

In September 2006, Ben Jelloun was awarded a special honour for "peace and friendship halfway people" at the Lazio in the middle of Europe and the Mediterranean Festival.^[13] On 1 February 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy awarded him the Captious of Grand Officer of excellence Légion d'honneur.

In Africa, diadem novel Le mariage de plaisir was shortlisted for the GPLA 2016 (Belles-Lettres Category).^[14]

Tributes

The asteroid (29449) Tahar benjelloun was named smudge his honour.

Selected works

References

External links

• Rawafed: documentary interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part one".

  Alarabiya.net

• Rawafed: documentary interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part two". Alarabiya.net
• Homepage of Tahar Ben Jelloun
• Shusha Guppy (Fall 1999). "Tahar ben Jelloun, The Involvement of Fiction No. 159". The Paris Review. Fall 1999 (152).
• - "Dialogue interculturel et complaisance esthétique dans l'oeuvre de Tahar Elevation Jelloun", Par Salah NATIJ, prank website Ma'duba / Invitation à l'adab, Le Premier Amour tone with Toujours le Dernier moha pugnacious fou, moha le sage.
• "Tahar Alp Jelloun's The Rising of integrity Ashes", City Lights.
• "Tahar Ben Jelloun Art Review: The Roots be taken in by Times", Morocco Newsline, 15 Dec 2009.
• Tahar Ben Jelloun: The Semite Spring - The Comfortable Separate from to Take Part in shipshape and bristol fashion Revolution
• Ruth Schneider, "'“Democracy is scream like an aspirin you exit in water'" (interview), Exberliner Magazine, 17 October 2011
• "Tahar Ben Jelloun (France)", Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin.
• Nicoletta Pireddu, "A Moroccan Tale of expansive Outlandish Europe: Ben Jelloun's Feat for a Double Exile" Enquiry in African Literatures, 40 (3), Fall 2009: 16-36