“Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.” – Tahar Ben Jelloun
Despite
being a Moroccan whose first language is Arabic, poet and writer Ben Jelloun
has established his writing chops with work entirely in French. Born on this
day in 1947, he started to write articles and reviews for the French newspaper Le Monde, while earning a doctorate
degree in social psychiatry. In 1985 he published his widely celebrated first novel The Sand Child. His second novel The
Sacred Night won the major French writing award the Prix Goncourt. Both novels have now been translated into 43
languages.
He also has earned acclaim for
his efforts 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to foster peace and friendship among the Arabic and non-Arabic
worlds and to fight
injustice and racism through his essays and poetry, a
medium he finds particularly powerful and recommends to all writers.
"I
came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation,
humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent
would have been a kind of intolerable complicity,” he said. “For me, poetry is a situation - a state of
being, a way of facing life and facing history.”
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