Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun, born in Fez in 1944, is a Moroccan writer with a French expression. He studied at the French Lyceum in Tangier and graduated in Philosophy at the Mohamed V University in Rabat. Since 1968 he worked as a professor in Tetouan and Casablanca, moving in 1971 to France where he obtained his doctorate at the University of Paris. Poet, novelist and essayist, he mixes Maghrebi culture with the problems of current western society, always far from religious extremism. From his extensive production we highlight Harruda (1973), The Sand Boy (1985), The Holy Night (1987), novel for which he received the Goncourt Prize, Day of Silence in Tangier (1990), Dad, what is racism ? (1997), My mother (2008), The conjugal happiness (2012) and The punishment (2018). In 2008 he was elected a member of the Académie Goncourt. He currently resides in Paris.