WRITER

Tahar Ben Jelloun

1944 - Today

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Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: الطاهر بن جلون, romanized: aṭ-Ṭāhir bin Jallūn; born 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de sable (The Sand Child). All of his work is written in French although his first language is Darija. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tahar Ben Jelloun has received more than 245,608 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Tahar Ben Jelloun is the 1,108th most popular writer (up from 1,143rd in 2019), the 21st most popular biography from Morocco (down from 19th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Moroccan Writer.

Tahar ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer and psychiatrist who is most famous for his novel, "The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon."

Memorability Metrics

  • 250k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.93

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.67

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

La nuit sacrée
Fiction, Women, Sex role
1987
La réclusion solitaire
1976
Jour de silence à Tanger
Death, Fiction
1990
Les amandiers sont morts de leurs blessures
1976
Harrouda
1973
L' enfant de sable
French language materials, Language readers, General
1985

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Tahar Ben Jelloun ranks 1,108 out of 7,302. Before him are Andrei Bely, Bhāsa, Bernard Cornwell, Robert Merle, Hélène Cixous, and Claudius Aelianus. After him are Velimir Khlebnikov, Camilla Collett, Ethel Voynich, Shi Nai'an, Ellen Key, and Yakub Kolas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Tahar Ben Jelloun ranks 94. Before him are Donna Haraway, Erwin Neher, Karin Schubert, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Mairead Maguire, and Bernard Cornwell. After him are Nana Akufo-Addo, Killing of Peter Fechter, Mordechai Spiegler, Keith Emerson, Jeroen Krabbé, and Sondra Locke.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun ranks 21 out of 264. Before him are Fatema Mernissi (1940), Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur (1160), Yusef of Morocco (1882), Ahmad al-Mansur (1549), Abu Yaqub Yusuf (1138), and Zeno of Verona (300). After him are Hassan I of Morocco (1836), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (1951), Ahmad al-Badawi (1199), Al-Rashid of Morocco (1631), Mordechai Vanunu (1954), and Frida Boccara (1940).

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Among WRITERS In Morocco

Among writers born in Morocco, Tahar Ben Jelloun ranks 2. Before him are Fatema Mernissi (1940). After him are Daniel Pennac (1944), Mohamed Choukri (1935), Dunash ben Labrat (920), Driss Chraïbi (1926), Ahmed Rami (1946), Eva Illouz (1961), Malika Oufkir (1953), Muriel Barbery (1969), Katherine Pancol (1954), and Leïla Slimani (1981).

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