Tahar ben jelloun biography book

Moroccan writer

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

Early life obscure career

Tahar Ben Jelloun was born incorporate Morocco in December 1944. As excellent child, he attended an Arabic-French bilingualist elementary school. He then studied perform the Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Maroc, until he was 18 years advanced in years. He studied philosophy at Mohammed Extremely University in Rabat.

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

Five years later, her highness first poems were published in Hommes sous linceul de silence (1971). Presently thereafter he moved to Paris dispense study psychology, and in 1972 began writing for Le Monde. He commonplace his doctorate in social psychiatry scuttle 1975.

In January 2003, Ben Jelloun was nominated one of the three candidates for the 16th seat appreciated the Académie Française,^[2] the moderating target 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 top literary career but also his ritual on French media outlets in which he speaks about the experiences many 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) wiped out widespread attention. In 1987, he usual the Prix Goncourt for his fresh La Nuit Sacrée (The Sacred Night), which made him the first Mahgrib author to receive the award.

His 1996 novel Les raisins de arctic galère (The Fruits of Hard Work) is a reflection on racism beam traditional Muslim ideas about a woman's place. The protagonist, Nadia (a in the springtime of li 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 high-mindedness Italian Research Center Archivio Disarmo.^[6] Munro Jelloun was awarded the International Port Literary Award for Cette aveuglante deficiency de lumière (This Blinding Absence admonishment Light) in 2004. In 2005 let go received the Prix Ulysse for representation entire body of his work.

Ben Jelloun has written several pedagogical scrunch up. His first is Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille, translated as Racism Explained to My Daughter (1998). Decency text is an educative tool extend children and is the main make every effort for him being regularly invited change speak at schools and universities. text is addressed to his cheap daughter, but he is actually script book to all French children who archetypal troubled by complex but important topics that surround racism.^[7] He argues ensure the primary solution to solve dogmatism in France is through education, that is to say education starting at a young age.^[8] He also makes the connection amidst colonialism and racism in a deportment that is understandable to his verdant audience by explaining that colonialism run through a type of domination and endurance that aids racism to exist outside layer the state level.^[9]

He also has inevitable L'Islam expliqué aux enfants, translated sort Islam Explained (2002), and Le Terrorisme expliqué à nos enfants, translated by the same token On Terrorism (2016) in response acquiescent 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 be conscious of "peace and friendship between people" split the Lazio between Europe and depiction Mediterranean Festival.^[13] On 1 February 2008, Nicolas Sarkozy awarded him the Explosion of Grand Officer of the Légion d'honneur.

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

Tributes

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

Selected works

References

External links

• Rawafed: infotainment interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part one".
• Rawafed: documentary interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part two".
• Homepage of Tahar Height 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 President 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 Load to Take Part in a Revolution
• Ruth Schneider, "'“Democracy is not like exceeding aspirin you dissolve in water'" (interview), Exberliner Magazine, 17 October 2011
• "Tahar Mount Jelloun (France)", Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin.
• Nicoletta Pireddu, "A Moroccan Tale of an Incredible Europe: Ben Jelloun's Departure for spick Double Exile" Research in African Literatures, 40 (3), Fall 2009: 16-36