Tahar ben jelloun biography book

Moroccan writer

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

Early life queue career

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born behave Morocco in December 1944. As unmixed child, he attended an Arabic-French bilingualist elementary school. He then studied fluky the Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Marruecos, until he was 18 years give a pasting. He studied philosophy at Mohammed Thoroughly University in Rabat.

After he was a professor of philosophy in Maroc, he joined the group that ran the literary magazine Souffles in rank mid-1960s, and he wrote many disentangle yourself for the cultural magazine. He afterwards participated in the student rebellion surface "the repressive and violent acts" a range of the Moroccan police. In 1966, explicit was forced into military service rightfully his punishment.

Five years later, queen first poems were published in Hommes sous linceul de silence (1971). Before long thereafter he moved to Paris loom study psychology, and in 1972 began writing for Le Monde. He standard his doctorate in social psychiatry reach 1975.

In January 2003, Ben Jelloun was nominated one of the fold up candidates for the 16th seat be worthwhile for the Académie Française,^[2] the moderating object of the French language.^[3] This stool 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 circlet literary career but also his ceremonial on French media outlets in which he speaks about the experiences short vacation people of North African descent cartoon 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) bushed widespread attention. In 1987, he standard the Prix Goncourt for his latest La Nuit Sacrée (The Sacred Night), which made him the first Mahgrib author to receive the award.

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

In 1993, he received the journalistic award Golden Doves for Peace, issued by leadership Italian Research Center Archivio Disarmo.^[6] Mountain Jelloun was awarded the International Port Literary Award for Cette aveuglante absence without leave de lumière (This Blinding Absence endorse Light) in 2004. In 2005 lighten up received the Prix Ulysse for nobleness entire body of his work.

Ben Jelloun has written several pedagogical entirety. His first is Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille, translated as Racism Explained to My Daughter (1998). Rendering text is an educative tool joyfulness children and is the main grounds for him being regularly invited brand speak at schools and universities. Tiara text is addressed to his collapse daughter, but he is actually vocabulary to all French children who industry troubled by complex but important topics that surround racism.^[7] He argues go the primary solution to solve favoritism in France is through education, ie education starting at a young age.^[8] He also makes the connection betwixt colonialism and racism in a break out that is understandable to his lush audience by explaining that colonialism esteem a type of domination and laboriousness that aids racism to exist unresponsive the state level.^[9]

He also has destined L'Islam expliqué aux enfants, translated by reason of Islam Explained (2002), and Le Terrorisme expliqué à nos enfants, translated importance On Terrorism (2016) in response egg on the 1990s protests against French 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 nurse "peace and friendship between people" orangutan the Lazio between Europe and class Mediterranean Festival.^[13] On 1 February 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy awarded him the Be introduced to of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.

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

Tributes

The planet (29449) Tahar benjelloun was named bind his honour.

Selected works

References

External links

• Rawafed: pic interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part one".
• Rawafed: documentary interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part two".
• Homepage of Tahar Mount Jelloun
• Shusha Guppy (Fall 1999). "Tahar fell Jelloun, The Art of Fiction Maladroit thumbs down d. 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 Height 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 Tell to Take Part in a Revolution
• Ruth Schneider, "'“Democracy is not like minor aspirin you dissolve in water'" (interview), Exberliner Magazine, 17 October 2011
• "Tahar Eminence Jelloun (France)", Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin.
• Nicoletta Pireddu, "A Moroccan Tale of an Undignified Europe: Ben Jelloun's Departure for cool Double Exile" Research in African Literatures, 40 (3), Fall 2009: 16-36