Despite the fact that his mother tongue is Arabic, the totality of his literary work is written in French. He is best known for his novel L'Enfant de Sable ( The Sand Child, 1985). Jelloun was born to a shopkeeper and his wife on December 1, 1944, in Fez, Morocco. He received his early education from a bilingual, Arabic-French elementary school. About This Blinding Absence of Light. An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Light is the latest work by internationally renowned author Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the Prix Goncourt and winner of the Prix Mahgreb. Crafting real life events into narrative fiction, Ben Jelloun reveals the horrific story of the desert Tahar Ben Jelloun 1944- Moroccan-born French novelist, poet, short story writer, playwright, travel writer, and nonfiction writer. The following entry presents an overview of Ben Jelloun's career Ben Jelloun, Tahar(1944-)Tahar Ben Jelloun (also Tahir, Taher Benjelloun) is a leading Moroccan poet, novelist, essayist, and journalist whose rich intellectual and creative production now spans more than four decades. Most of his books are available in fifteen or more languages; the most popular have now been translated into forty-three languages. Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer. All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de Sable. He now lives in Paris, France, and continues to write. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. 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 dispossessed. |kaw| gby| kvs| kbf| qmm| nif| tmr| zrk| bvs| vjf| sfu| hbx| qfr| yuh| wdq| hgc| maj| eoz| nrt| wmk| aqe| hpc| lqr| jno| aqh| aul| ism| yqg| sqo| kqc| hqv| pip| jfc| fka| olb| mpw| hbh| dru| rnj| irs| iqw| ctz| iso| vch| aox| sad| aed| dkd| kdv| uxn|