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17-06-04, 19:50
An immediate and critically acclaimed bestseller in France, This Blinding Absence of Ligh t is the latest work by Tahar Ben Jelloun, the first North African winner of the 1994 Prix Mahgreb....etc
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17 June 2004 16:14
A Moroccan-born author, Tahar Ben Jelloun, has won the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel This Blinding Absence of Light.
The novel tells the story of the survivors of desert concentration camps in Morocco when it was under the rule of King Hassan II.
The award, worth €100,000, is the world's largest literary prize for a single work of fiction.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0617/IMPAC.html
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Winner of the 1994 Prix Maghreb , Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1961. A novelist, essayist, critic and poet , he is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Répubblica, El País, and Panorama. His novels include The Sacred Night , which received the Prix Goncourt in 1987.
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17 June 2004 16:14
A Moroccan-born author, Tahar Ben Jelloun, has won the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for his novel This Blinding Absence of Light.
The novel tells the story of the survivors of desert concentration camps in Morocco when it was under the rule of King Hassan II.
The award, worth €100,000, is the world's largest literary prize for a single work of fiction.
http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0617/IMPAC.html
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Winner of the 1994 Prix Maghreb , Tahar Ben Jelloun was born in 1944 in Fez, Morocco, and emigrated to France in 1961. A novelist, essayist, critic and poet , he is a regular contributor to Le Monde, La Répubblica, El País, and Panorama. His novels include The Sacred Night , which received the Prix Goncourt in 1987.