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
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La réclusion solitaire
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Harrouda
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Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures: poèmes
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L' enfant de sable
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Jour de silence à Tanger: récit
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Hospitalité française: racisme et immigration maghrébine
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L' homme rompu
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La plus haute des solitudes: misère affective et sexuelle d'émigrés nord-africains
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L' ange aveugle
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L' écrivain public: récit
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Enfant de sable
3 editions - first published in 1987 DAISY -
Cette aveuglante absence de lumière
2 editions - first published in 2001 DAISY -
Le dernier ami
2 editions - first published in 2004 -
Amours sorcières: nouvelles
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La prière de l'absent
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Les yeux baissés
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Le racisme expliqué à ma fille
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A l'insu du souvenir
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Alberto Giacometti & Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Au pays
2 editions - first published in 2009 DAISY -
Arabischer Frühling: Vom Wiedererlangen der arabischen Würde
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Partir
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Labyrinthe des sentiments
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Muḥā al-maʻtwah, Muḥā al-ḥakīm
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Kizima Irkciligi Anlatiyorum
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Marseille, comme un matin d'insomnie
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L' enfant du sable
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Maroc: les montagnes du silence
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Le premier amour est toujours le dernier: nouvelles
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Éloge de l'amitié ; ombre de la trahison
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Delacroix al Marocco
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L' islam expliqué aux enfants
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Les raisins de la galère
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L' auberge des pauvres
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Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures suivi de Cicatrices du soleil et Le discours du chameau
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Le discours du chameau: poème.
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La nuit de l'erreur
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La fiancée de l'eau ; suivi de, Entretien avec Monsieur Saïd Hammadi, ouvrier algérien
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La nuit sacree
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Sur ma mère
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La fiancée de l'eau: suivi de entretien avec Monsieur Saïd Hammadi ouvrier algérien.
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La rue pour un seul: Alberto Giacometti
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Les Amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures. Suivi de A l'insu du souvenir
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La soudure fraternelle
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Eloge de l'amitié
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La remontée des cendres ; suivi de Non identifiés
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Papá, qué es el racismo?
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Poésie complète
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La remontée des cendres ; suivi de Non identifiés
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Au seuil du paradis
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Au seuil du paradis
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Marabouts, Maroc
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Jean Genet, menteur sublime
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Par le feu
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L'étincelle
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Leaving Tangier
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A palace in the old village
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Alberto Giacometti
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The magic of Morocco
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With downcast eyes: a novel
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State of absence
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Leaving: a novel
1 edition - first published in 2009 DAISY -
French hospitality: racism and North African immigrants
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Rachid: l'enfant de la télé
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This Blinding Absence of Light
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The rising of the ashes
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El Islam explicado a nuestros hijos
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Corruption
1 edition - first published in 1995 Checked out -
La escuela vacía
1 edition - first published in 2003
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