丕賱胤丕賴乇 亘賳 噩賱賵賳 Tahar Ben Jelloun (Arabic: 丕賱胤丕賴乇 亘賳 噩賱賵賳鈥庘€�) is a Moroccan writer. The entirety of his work is written in French, although his first language is Arabic. He became known for his 1985 novel L鈥橢nfant de Sable (The Sand Child). Today he lives in Paris and continues to write. He has been short-listed for the Nobel Prize in Literature.