Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jellounis a Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic. He became known for his 1985 novel L’Enfant de Sable. Today he lives in Paris and continues to write. He has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth1 December 1944
CountryFrance
There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.
great
There are very few great poets in the world.
arab
The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
best man
The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.
morocco
In Morocco, it's possible to see the Atlantic and the Mediterranean at the same time.