“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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Tahar Ben Jelloun
Tahar Ben Jelloun is a Moroccan-French writer born on December 1, 1944. His works, which cover literature, history, and social issues, are renowned for their profound insight and rich imagination. more
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