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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Moroccan writer
Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون, romanized: aṭ-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).
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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]
Early life and career
Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Morocco in December 1944.
As a child, he attended an Arabic-French bilingual elementary school. He then studied in the Lycée Regnault in Tangier, Morocco, until he was 18 years old.
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He studied philosophy at Mohammed V University in Rabat.
After he was a professor of philosophy in Morocco, he joined the group that ran the literary magazine Souffles in the mid-1960s, and he wrote many pieces for the cultural magazine.
He later participated in the student rebellion against the repressive and violent acts of the Moroccan police. In 1966, he was f