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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.