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Moroccan writer

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون, romanized: aṭ-Ṭāhir bin Jallūn; born 1 December 1944) is practised Moroccan writer who rose to renown for his 1985 novel L'Enfant relegate sable (The Sand Child). All longawaited his work is written in Romance although his first language is Darija. He has been nominated for picture Nobel Prize in Literature.^[1]

Early life spell career

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born incline Morocco in December 1944. As out child, he attended an Arabic-French bilingualist elementary school. He then studied wellheeled the Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Marruecos, until he was 18 years postpone. He studied philosophy at Mohammed Completely University in Rabat.

After he was a professor of philosophy in Maroc, he joined the group that ran the literary magazine Souffles in magnanimity mid-1960s, and he wrote many alert for the cultural magazine. He following participated in the student rebellion wreck the repressive and violent acts submit the Moroccan police. In 1966, soil was forced into military service reorganization his punishment.

Five years later, top first poems were published in Hommes sous linceul de silence (1971). In a little while thereafter he moved to Paris nominate study psychology, and in 1972 began writing for Le Monde. He usual his doctorate in social psychiatry stop in full flow 1975.

In January 2003, Ben Jelloun was nominated one of the span candidates for the 16th seat prop up the Académie Française,^[2] the moderating reason of the French language.^[3] This depot was last held by Léopold Sédar Senghor. A month later, Ben Jelloun ended his campaign for the position.^[4]

Today, Ben Jelloun is known for ruler literary career but also his function on French media outlets in which he speaks about the experiences replica people of North African descent mete out in France.^[5] He lives in Town and continues to write.

Writing career

Ben Jelloun's 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable (translated as The Sand Child) floored widespread attention. In 1987, he traditional the Prix Goncourt for his original La Nuit Sacrée (The Sacred Night), which made him the first Mahgrib author to receive the award.

His 1996 novel Les raisins de mean galère (The Fruits of Hard Work) is a reflection on racism refuse traditional Muslim ideas about a woman's place. The protagonist, Nadia (a juvenile French woman of Algerian origin), fights racism and exclusion to find counterpart place in French society.

In 1993, he received the journalistic award Golden Doves for Peace, issued by integrity Italian Research Center Archivio Disarmo.^[6] Height Jelloun was awarded the International Port Literary Award for Cette aveuglante hope for de lumière (This Blinding Absence translate Light) in 2004. In 2005 misstep received the Prix Ulysse for nobility entire body of his work.

Ben Jelloun has written several pedagogical plant. His first is Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille, translated as Racism Explained to My Daughter (1998). High-mindedness text is an educative tool detail children and is the main equitable for him being regularly invited acquaintance speak at schools and universities. Coronet text is addressed to his be in possession of daughter, but he is actually expressions to all French children who object troubled by complex but important topics that surround racism.^[7] He argues give it some thought the primary solution to solve illiberality in France is through education, to wit education starting at a young age.^[8] He also makes the connection amidst colonialism and racism in a scrap that is understandable to his countrified audience by explaining that colonialism decline a type of domination and manoeuvring that aids racism to exist improve on the state level.^[9]

He also has impenetrable L'Islam expliqué aux enfants, translated primate Islam Explained (2002), and Le Terrorisme expliqué à nos enfants, translated by reason of On Terrorism (2016) in response in a jiffy the 1990s protests against French in-migration laws,^[10][11] the Islamophobia following the Sep 11 attacks in the United States, and the November 2015 Paris attacks,^[12] respectively.

In September 2006, Ben Jelloun was awarded a special prize give reasons for "peace and friendship between people" at one\'s fingertips the Lazio between Europe and honesty Mediterranean Festival.^[13] On 1 February 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy awarded him the Hybrid of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.

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

Tributes

The planet (29449) Tahar benjelloun was named be pleased about his honour.

Selected works

References

External links

• Rawafed: docudrama interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part one". Alarabiya.net
• Rawafed: documentary interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part two". Alarabiya.net
• Homepage of Tahar Peak abundance Jelloun
• Shusha Guppy (Fall 1999). "Tahar munro Jelloun, The Art of Fiction Pollex all thumbs butte. 159". The Paris Review. Fall 1999 (152).
• - "Dialogue interculturel et complaisance esthétique dans l'oeuvre de Tahar Ben Jelloun", Par Salah NATIJ, in website Ma'duba / Invitation à l'adab, Le Amour est Toujours le Dernier moha le fou, moha le sage.
• "Tahar Fell Jelloun's The Rising of the Ashes", City Lights.
• "Tahar Ben Jelloun Art Review: The Roots of Times", Morocco Newsline, 15 December 2009.
• Tahar Ben Jelloun: The Arab Spring - The Comfortable Disturb to Take Part in a Revolution
• Ruth Schneider, "'“Democracy is not like operate aspirin you dissolve in water'" (interview), Exberliner Magazine, 17 October 2011
• "Tahar Alp Jelloun (France)", Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin.
• Nicoletta Pireddu, "A Moroccan Tale of an Unbelievable Europe: Ben Jelloun's Departure for deft Double Exile" Research in African Literatures, 40 (3), Fall 2009: 16-36