"I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter."
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Tahar Ben Jelloun, born on December 1, 1944, in Fes, Morocco, is a distinguished poet, novelist, and essayist renowned for his profound exploration of identity, culture, and the human condition. With a literary career that spans decades, Ben Jelloun has garnered international acclaim, including the prestigious Prix Goncourt and the Prix Maghreb. His works, such as "The Sand Child" and "This Blinding Absence of Light," reflect a unique blend of Moroccan heritage and universal themes, establishing him as a pivotal figure in contemporary literature.
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"I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile."
Tahar Ben Jelloun"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."
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"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."
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