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Friday, June 18th, 2004
The IMPAC prize seems to have caused a spike in sales for Tahar Ben Jelloun’s This Blinding Absence of Light, as noticed by The Literary Saloon. This morning the novel is at an impressive sales rank of 175 on Amazon. (Meanwhile, this is all the NY Times had to say…) If you’re interested in Moroccan [...]
Mabrouk, Tahar
Thursday, June 17th, 2004
Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun has just won the International IMPAC Dublin Award, the world’s largest literary prize. (The shortlist included works by Paul Auster, William Boyd, Sandra Cisneros, Jeffrey Eugenides, Maggie Gee, Amin Maalouf, Rohinton Mistry, Atiq Rahimi, and Olga Tokarczuk.) Ben Jelloun’s novel, This Blinding Absence of Light (Cette Aveuglante absence de lumiere), [...]
IMPAC Dublin Award
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004
The IMPAC Dublin shortlist was announced today (the longlist was announced a couple of months ago). The finalists are: The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster Any Human Heart – William Boyd Caramelo – Sandra Cisneros Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides The White Family – Maggie Gee This Blinding Absence of Light – Taher Ben Jelloun [...]
