Birth Name:

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Male

Birth Date:

Fri, Dec 01, 1944

Time of Birth:

Unknown (using Noon)

Place of Birth:

Fes, Fès-Meknès, Morocco

Age:

80

Zodiac Sign:

Sagittarius

Astrology Data:

Sun

9°

Sag

9'

About Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Darija. He became known for his 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable (The Sand Child). Today he lives in Paris, France, and continues to write. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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External Links:

• Rawafed: documentary interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part one". Alarabiya.net

• Rawafed: documentary interview Tahar Ben Jelloun "part two". Alarabiya.net

• Homepage of Tahar Ben Jelloun

• Shusha Guppy (Fall 1999). "Tahar ben Jelloun, The Art of Fiction No. 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 Premier Amour est Toujours le Dernier moha le fou, moha le sage.

• "Tahar Ben 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 Way to Take Part in a Revolution

• Ruth Schneider, "'“Democracy is not like an aspirin you dissolve in water'" (interview), Exberliner Magazine, 17 October 2011

• "Tahar Ben Jelloun (France)", Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin.

• Nicoletta Pireddu, "A Moroccan Tale of an Outlandish Europe: Ben Jelloun's Departure for a Double Exile" Research in African Literatures, 40 (3), Fall 2009: 16-36

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Tahar Ben Jelloun: Sun 9 Sagittarius, Moon 27 Gemini, Mercury 29 Sagittarius, Venus 18 Capricorn, Mars 4 Sagittarius, Jupiter 24 Virgo, Saturn 9 Cancer, Uranus 11 Gemini, Neptune 6 Libra, Pluto 10 Leo, Sun Sextile Neptune, Sun Conjunct Mars, Sun Opposition Uranus, Sun Trine Pluto, Sun Quincunx Saturn, Mercury Square Jupiter, Venus Semi Square Mars, Mars Sextile Neptune, Jupiter Semi Square Pluto, Saturn Semi Sextile Uranus, Saturn Square Neptune, Saturn Semi Sextile Pluto, Uranus Sextile Pluto

Categories related to Tahar Ben Jelloun: Living people, Officiers of the Légion dhonneur, 1944 births, December 1 births, Commanders of the National Order of Merit (France), Exophonic writers, Magic realism writers, People from Fez, Morocco, Mohammed V University alumni, 21st-century novelists, Male novelists, Joseph Kessel Prize recipients, 20th-century novelists, Moroccan male writers, Prix Goncourt winners, AC with 26 elements, Moroccan writers in French, Moroccan novelists

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