Tahar Ben Jelloun

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Tahar Ben Jelloun (born December 1, 1947 in Fès ) is a French-speaking Moroccan writer and psychotherapist and is considered the most important representative of French-language literature from the Maghreb .

Life

After attending an Arabic-Francophone elementary school, Tahar Ben Jelloun moved at the age of 18 from his birthplace, Fez, to Tangier to attend a French high school ( Lycée ). In 1963 he began to study philosophy at the Muhammad V University in Rabat , where he also wrote his first poems, which were published in the anthology Hommes sous linceul de silence in 1971. After completing his studies, he taught philosophy in Morocco, but had to emigrate to France in 1971 because the teaching of philosophy was Arabized and he was not trained for it. There he received his doctorate in social psychiatry in 1975 , which also influenced his works (e.g. La Réclusion solitaire , 1976). From 1972 he wrote regularly for Le Monde .

In the following years Ben Jelloun published numerous novels , including 1985 L'Enfant de sable , with which he became famous. La Nuit Sacrée , the sequel to Enfant de sable , was awarded the Prix ​​Goncourt in 1987 . This made Ben Jelloun the first author from North Africa to receive this award.

In 1994 he was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire du Maghreb , with which he finally asserted himself as a French author.

In June 2004 Ben Jelloun received the Irish IMPAC literary prize endowed with 100,000 euros for his book Cette aveuglante absence de lumière (German: “The Silence of Light”), in which he describes the conditions in the - now closed - Tazmamart prison camp . The novel is based on a true story.

Jelloun's works have been translated into numerous languages, such as L'Enfant de sable and La Nuit sacrée in 43 languages ​​or Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille in 25 languages. His novel Les Raisins de la galère was also required in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony for the central high school diploma in French in 2008 and 2009.

Tahar Ben Jelloun lives in Paris with his wife and daughter Mérième, for whom he has written several educational books . In Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille (German: "Papa, what is a stranger?") From 1997, he explains to his daughter - and all other interested parties - sensitively and yet objectively why racism arises and how it can be counteracted. This children's book and L'Islam expliqué aux enfants (German: “Papa, what is Islam?”), Both of which Jelloun wrote as an essay , soon became international bestsellers .

In 1988 Ben Jelloun was made a Knight and in 2008 a Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor . He was also awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Montreal on June 19 .

In 2011 Tahar Ben Jelloun wrote the work Arab Spring , in which he dealt with the protests in the Arab world and for which he was awarded the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize of the city of Osnabrück in the same year .

Works

  • Harrouda (1973).
  • La Réclusion solitaire (1976).
  • Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures (1976).
  • La Mémoire future - Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie du Maroc Maspero (1976).
  • La Plus Haute des Solitudes (1977).
    • German: The deepest of loneliness. Stroemfeld / Roter Stern, Frankfurt am Main 1986, ISBN 3-87877-261-0 .
  • Moha le fou, Moha le sage (1978).
  • A l'insu du souvenir (1980).
  • La Prière de l'absent (1981).
  • La Réclusion solitaire (1981).
  • L'Ecrivain public (1983).
  • Hospitalité française , 1997 and "Points Actuels", n ° A65 (1984).
  • La Fiancée de l'eau (1984).
  • L'Enfant de sable (1985).
  • La Nuit sacrée (1987).
  • Jour de silence à Tanger , Éxditions du Seuil, Paris 1990.
    • German by Ulli Aumüller: Day of Silence in Tanger , Roman. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 1991, ISBN 3-499-12823-3 .
  • Les Yeux baissés (1991).
  • Alberto Giacometti (1991).
  • La Remontée des cendres (1991).
  • L'Ange aveugle (1992).
  • L'Homme rompu (1994).
  • La Soudure fraternelle (1994).
  • Poésie complète (1995).
  • Le Premier amour est toujours le dernier (1995).
  • Les Raisins de la galère (1996).
  • La Nuit de l'erreur (1997).
  • Le Racisme expliqué à ma fille (1998; significantly expanded new edition September 2009)
  • L'Auberge des pauvres (1999).
  • Labyrinth of sentiment. Stock, Paris 1999.
    • German: labyrinth of feelings . Translated by Christiane Kayser. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001, ISBN 3-499-22722-3 .
  • Cette aveuglante absence de lumière (2001)
    • The silence of the light: novel . Translation by Christiane Kayser. Berlin: Berlin-Verlag, 2001
  • L'Islam expliqué aux enfants (2002)
    • German: Papa, what is Islam? (2003).
  • Le dernier ami (2004).
  • Partir (2006).
    • German: Abandoned , Roman. Translated by Christiane Kayser. Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-8270-0652-3 .
  • Yemma - My Mother, My Child (2007)
  • Sur ma mère (2008).
  • Au pays (2009).
  • Beckett et Genet, un thé à Tanger (2010).
  • Jean Genet, menteur sublime (2010).
  • L'étincelle (2011).
  • Le Bonheur conjugal. (2012).
  • L'Ablation . Gallimard, "La Blanche" Collection, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-07-014412-9 .
  • The terrorism expliqué à nos enfants.
    • Übers. Christiane Kayser: Papa, what is a terrorist? Berlin Verlag, 2017.

literature

  • Harmjan Dam: Appropriate discussion of Islam. A book contributes to more understanding, tolerance and openness to the world. In: Religion. 5-10, Issue 3, 2011, pp. 40 f.

Web links

Commons : Tahar Ben Jelloun  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Röhrig: Afterword, in: Tahar Ben Jelloun: Les Raisins de la galère . In: J. Röhrig (Ed.): Universal library . No. 9056 . Reclam Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-15-009056-3 , p. 157-175 .
  2. ↑ taharbenjelloun.org: Biography , (French) (accessed January 19, 2014)
  3. ↑ "emarrakech.info": Sarkozy décore Tahar Ben Jelloun de la croix de grand officier de la légion d'honneur. ( Memento from January 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) February 2, 2008 (French)
  4. ↑ "taharbenjelloun.org": "Tahar Ben Jelloun, Doctor Honoris Causa de l'Université de Montréal" , July 25, 2008 (French / English)
  5. ↑ ttt- Arab Spring
  6. ^ "Farewell in Tangier" Review of Yemma in Die Zeit , November 22, 2007.
personal data
SURNAME Jelloun, Tahar Ben
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jelloun, Taher Ben
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Moroccan writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Fez