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Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1947-

LC control no.n 50038444
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPQ3989.2.J4
Personal name headingBen Jelloun, Tahar, 1947-
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Variant(s)Ben Jelloun, Tahar, 1944-
Ṭāhir Bin-Jallūn, 1947-
Bin-Jallūn, al-Ṭāhir, 1947-
Tahar Ben Jelloun, 1947-
Ibn Jallūn, al-Ṭāhir, 1947-
Ṭāhir ibn Jallūn, 1947-
Jelloun, Tahar Ben, 1947-
Benjelloun, Tahar, 1947-
בן־ג׳לון, טאהאר, 1947-
إبن جلون، طاهر، 1947-
ابن جلّون، الطاهر، 1947-
بن جلون، الطاهر
بن جلون، طاهر، 1947
Associated countryMorocco
France
Birth date1947-12-01
Place of birthFès (Morocco)
AffiliationJāmiʻat Muḥammad al-Khāmis Université de Paris VII Académie Goncourt
Profession or occupationAuthor
Novelists Journalists
Special noteMachine-derived non-Latin script reference project.
Non-Latin script references not evaluated.
Found inHis Cicatrices du soleil, 1972.
His Ḥadīth al-jamal, 1975: t.p. (al-Ṭāhir Bin-Jallūn)
Lecture des récits de Tahar Benjelloun, c1992.
Wikipedia, via WWW, November 12, 2010: (born in Fes, Morocco, 1 December 1944)
Dictionary of African Biography accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Ben Jelloun, Tahar; Moroccan writer, educator, fiction writer, autobiographer / memoirist; born 01 December 1944 in Fez, Morocco; high school degree from Lycée Regnault (1963), studied philosophy at the Muhammad V University in Rabat; was the first philosophy teacher at Charif Idrissi High School in Tétouan; also taught at Mohamed V High School in Casablanca; moved to France in 1971; doctorate in social psychiatry, University of Paris VII (1975); became a regular contributor for the newspaper Le Monde; the first Maghrebian writer to be a recipient of the Prix Goncourt (1987) for his novel La nuit sacrée (The Sacred Night); elected to the Académie Goncourt (2008))
The punishment, 2020: t.p. (Tahar Ben Jelloun) last pages (born 1 December 1947 in Fez, Morocco)
French Wikipedia, seen 13 October 2021 (Tahar Ben Jelloun born 1 December 1947 in Fez, Morocco) footnote ("I was not born in 44, as is written everywhere, I was born in 47". The author explains that in order to be able to be enrolled in the Franco-Moroccan bilingual nursery school in Fez, his father voluntarily aged him and that the error on his year of birth comes from there)
Associated languagefre ara
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