Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Fes, Morocco. He studied Philosophy in Rabat. In 1971, he moved to France, where he studied Psychology. He has been a professor, and he is currently a psychotherapist. Although his first language is Arabic, he writes in French. 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). In 2008 he was awarded the Cross of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.
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La nuit sacrée
6 editions - first published in 1987 -
La réclusion solitaire
6 editions - first published in 1976 -
Harrouda
6 editions - first published in 1973 -
Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures: poèmes
5 editions - first published in 1976 -
L' enfant de sable
5 editions - first published in 1985 -
Jour de silence à Tanger: récit
5 editions - first published in 1990 -
Hospitalité française: racisme et immigration maghrébine
3 editions - first published in 1984 -
La plus haute des solitudes: misère affective et sexuelle d'émigrés nord-africains
3 editions - first published in 1977 -
L' ange aveugle
3 editions - first published in 1992 -
L' écrivain public: récit
3 editions - first published in 1983 -
Enfant de sable
3 editions - first published in 1987 -
L' homme rompu
3 editions - first published in 1994 -
Cette aveuglante absence de lumière
2 editions - first published in 2001 -
Le dernier ami
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
Amours sorcières: nouvelles
2 editions - first published in 2003 -
La prière de l'absent
2 editions - first published in 1981 -
Les yeux baissés
2 editions - first published in 1991 -
Le racisme expliqué à ma fille
2 editions - first published in 1998 -
A l'insu du souvenir
2 editions - first published in 1980 -
Alberto Giacometti & Tahar Ben Jelloun
2 editions - first published in 1991 -
Arabischer Frühling: Vom Wiedererlangen der arabischen Würde
2 editions - first published in 2011 -
Au pays
2 editions - first published in 2009 -
Partir
1 edition - first published in 2006 -
Labyrinthe des sentiments
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Muḥā al-maʻtwah, Muḥā al-ḥakīm
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
Kizima Irkciligi Anlatiyorum
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Marseille, comme un matin d'insomnie
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L' enfant du sable
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Maroc: les montagnes du silence
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Le premier amour est toujours le dernier: nouvelles
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Éloge de l'amitié ; ombre de la trahison
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Delacroix al Marocco
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
L' islam expliqué aux enfants
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Les raisins de la galère
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
L' auberge des pauvres
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures suivi de Cicatrices du soleil et Le discours du chameau
1 edition - first published in 1976 -
Le discours du chameau: poème.
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La nuit de l'erreur
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
La fiancée de l'eau ; suivi de, Entretien avec Monsieur Saïd Hammadi, ouvrier algérien
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
La nuit sacree
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Sur ma mère
1 edition - first published in 2008 -
La fiancée de l'eau: suivi de entretien avec Monsieur Saïd Hammadi ouvrier algérien.
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
La rue pour un seul: Alberto Giacometti
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Les Amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures. Suivi de A l'insu du souvenir
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La soudure fraternelle
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Eloge de l'amitié
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
La remontée des cendres ; suivi de Non identifiés
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Papá, qué es el racismo?
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Poésie complète
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
La remontée des cendres ; suivi de Non identifiés
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Au seuil du paradis
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Au seuil du paradis
1 edition - first published in 2012 -
Marabouts, Maroc
1 edition - first published in 2009 -
Jean Genet, menteur sublime
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Par le feu
1 edition - first published in 2011 -
L'étincelle
1 edition - first published in 2011 -
Leaving Tangier
1 edition - first published in 2009 -
A palace in the old village
1 edition - first published in 2011 -
Alberto Giacometti
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
The magic of Morocco
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
State of absence
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Leaving: a novel
1 edition - first published in 2009 -
Rachid: l'enfant de la télé
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The rising of the ashes
1 edition - first published in 2010 -
Corruption
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
El Islam explicado a nuestros hijos
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
La escuela vacía
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
This Blinding Absence of Light
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
With downcast eyes: a novel
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
French hospitality: racism and North African immigrants
1 edition - first published in 1999
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