
Tahar Ben Jelloun
Author · 41 books
الطاهر بن جلون Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون) is 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 (The Sand Child). Today he lives in Paris and continues to write. He has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Books

L'insomniaque
2019

L'Écrivain public
1983

Corruption
1994

Der Islam, der uns Angst macht
2015

Inn of the Poor
1997

عسل و حنظل
2021

Lettres à un jeune Marocain
2009

La Prière de l'absent
1981

L'étincelle
Révoltes dans les pays arabes de Ben Jelloun.Tahar (2011) Broché
2011

Mes contes de Perrault
2014

The Last Friend
2004

Au plus beau pays du monde
2022

The Sand Child
1985

That Dazzling Darkness
2001

هلوسات على جدران الوحدة
2025

The Sacred Night
1987

السعادة الزوجية
2014

Harudah
1973

Le racisme expliqué à ma fille
1998

When My Mother's Memory Stumbles
2006

With Downcast Eyes
A Novel
1982

French Hospitality
1984

To Leave
2006

By Fire
Writings on the Arab Spring
2011

Amours sorcières
2003

Le pareti della solitudine
1976

الإرهاب كما نشرحه لأولادنا
2016

Rising of the Ashes
1991

Les Raisins de la galère
1996

Jour de silence à Tanger
1990

A Palace in the Old Village
2009

The Night of the Error
1996

Islam Explained
2001

The Happy Marriage
2016

عشر ليال وراو
2014

L'École perdue
2000

The Punishment
2018

L'amicizia
1994

The Pleasure Marriage
2012

Moha le fou, Moha le sage (Points)
1978

Le premier amour est toujours le dernier
1995