![]() ![]() In The Sand Child, his sixth novel, he focuses, among other issues, on gender relations and the plight of females in Moroccan society. A poet, novelist, essayist, journalist, and playwright, Tahar Ben Jelloun frequently speaks out against injustice, racism, and discrimination against North Africans and Palestinians. He worked with North African immigrant patients for three years at the Dejerine Center for Psychosomatic Medicine, basing his second novel, Solitary Confinement (1976), on this work. Afterwards he studied social psychiatry in France, writing his doctoral dissertation on case histories of North African immigrant workers. During this time he published his first poems and a novel, Harrouda (1973). After graduating, Ben Jelloun taught philosophy in Tetouan and then in Casablanca. ![]() ![]() He went on to study at the University of Morocco in Rabat and participated in the publication of the radical political review Souffles. A novel set in Morocco from before 1956 to the early 1980s published in French (as L’Enfant de sable) in 1985, in English in 1987.Ī girl raised as a boy by her Moroccan family starches for her female identity through a series of physical, psychological, and erotic adventures.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn in Fez in 1944, Tahar Ben Jelloun attended the French lycée in Tangier, where he moved with his family at the age of 18. ![]()
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