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Moroccan-born novelist and poet Tahar Ben Jelloun won the world's most lucrative literary prize Thursday after international judges picked his novel about the horrors of desert camps as the best work of English fiction for 2002.
Mr. Ben Jelloun, 59, will receive the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award along with a Waterford Crystal trophy at a dinner later this month in Dublin City Hall. He will get three-fourths of the $120,000 prize, while the other quarter will go to Linda Coverdale, who translated the book into English.See the full content of this document
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Moroccan Author Wins Best Fiction Prize
Five international judges selected This Blinding Absence of Light, a scathing portrait of politi...
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