Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in Fez, Morocco, and immigrated to France in 1961. A novelist, essayist, critic and poet, he is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Républica, El País, and Panorama. He won the Prix Goncourt in 1987 for his novel La nuit sacrée (The Sacred Night) and has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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A Palace in the Old Village
From 'Morocco's greatest living author' (The Guardian) comes a heartbreaking novel about parents and children, the powerful pull of home and the yearning for tradition…
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Leaving Tangier
Tangier, in the early 1990s: Young Moroccans gather regularly in a seafront cafe to gaze at the lights on the Spanish coast glimmering in the…