Livres par Tahar Ben Jelloun

Born in Fez, Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun is an award-winning and internationally bestselling novelist, essayist, critic and poet. Regularly shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature, he has won the Prix Goncourt and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His work has also been shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. He received the rank of Officier de la Legion d'honneur in 2008. Some of his works in English translation include This Blinding Absence of Light, A Palace in the Old Village, The Sand Child and Racism Explained to My Daughter. Ros Schwartz has translated a wide range of Francophone fiction and non-fiction writers including Andree Chedid, Aziz Chouaki, Fatou Diome, Dominique Manotti and Dominique Edde. She was made Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to literature in 2009.Lulu Norman has translated the work of Mahi Binebine, Albert Cossery, Mahmoud Darwish, Amin Maalouf and the songs of Serge Gainsbourg. Her translations have been shortlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and Best Translated Books Award, among others.