With about twenty novels produced in the last thirty years, Moroccan novelist Tahar Ben Jelloun is undoubtedly the most prolific and best known contemporary francophone North African writer. Though he had won several important literary awards before, his rise to international prominence began when he became the first African Arab writer (and the second non-French person) to be awarded Le Prix Goncourt, Frances most prestigious literary prize, for his novel La Nuit sacrée published in 1987. Ever since, some of his works have been translated into more than forty languages and The Sacred Night has recently been made into a film.
Ben Jellouns 1997 book, La Nuit de lerreur, topped the best seller list in France in 1997, out-ranking even the 1996-Prix Goncourt winner. His 1998 book on racism, Racism Explained to My Daughter, has already sold 270,000 copies in France and is being used as a textbook in French public schools. Columbia University Press has just published an English translation of Hospitalité Française, while Johns Hopkins UP reissued paperback editions of The Sand Child(1985) and The Sacred Night a few months ago.
For a collection of essays to be published in Studies in the Novel, I am looking for articles (not exceeding 8000 words) on any aspect of Ben Jellouns fiction.
Submission deadline: July 1, 2001