Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun (2013)
Tahar Ben Jelloun (2013)
Native name
الطاهر بن جلون
Born (1944-12-01) 1 December 1944 (age 79)
Fes, French Morocco
OccupationNovelist, poet
LanguageFrench
NationalityMoroccan
Alma materMohammed V University
Period1973–present
Notable worksThe Sand Child
This Blinding Absence of Light
Notable awards Grand Officer, Legion of Honour (2008)
Prix Goncourt (1987)
Prix Ulysse (2005)
Website
taharbenjelloun.org

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون, romanizedaṭ-Ṭāhir bin Jallūn; born 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de sable (The Sand Child). All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]