This week, the United Nations Association of Spain conferred its annual Peace Award on Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun.
The award recognizes the work of an individual or organization for their leadership in defense of the peaceful resolution of conflicts, Human Rights and fundamental freedoms.
Among previous award laureates have been such people as Nelson Mandela, Mikhael Gorbatchev, Olof Palm, Federico Mayor, Hans Blix, Carla Ponté and Miguel Angel Moratinos.
Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: طاهر بنجلون) (born in Fes, December 1, 1944) is a Moroccan poet and writer. Professor at Tetouan and then in Casablanca. He has lived and worked in France since 1971.
He attends to lectures in social psychology and works as psychotherapist. He writes in French although his first language is Arabic. He writes for diverse reviews and in particular for Le Monde. His novel La Nuit Sacrée won the Prix Goncourt in 1987. In 2004 he was awarded the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for This Blinding Absence of Light (translated from the French by Linda Coverdale).
In September 2006, Tahar Ben Jelloun was awarded a special prize for "peace and friendship between peoples" at Lazio between Europe and the Mediterranean Festival.
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