# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tahar-ben-jelloun
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:18:30.716Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tahar-ben-jelloun"
name: "Tahar Ben Jelloun"
slug: "tahar-ben-jelloun"
description: "Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan writer who rose to fame for his 1985 novel L'Enfant de sable. Although his first language is Darija, his works are written in French. He has been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature."
tagline: "Moroccan naturalized French writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tahar_Ben_Jelloun_par_Claude_Truong-Ngoc_sept_2013.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-12-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.646132
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "nm0069932"
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    url:       "https://www.tahar-benjelloun.com"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump