Tahar Ben Jelloun

Moroccan writer (born 1944)

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). Although his first language is Darija, his works are written in French. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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