BBC NEWS | Entertainment: "Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun has won one of the world's richest literature prizes. Ben Jelloun's novel, This Blinding Absence of Light, won the 100,000 euro (£65,700) International Impac Dublin Literary Award 2004, on Thursday. The prize is the biggest for a single work of fiction in English. The panel of judges chose the novel, about an underground prison in the deserts of Morocco, from an international shortlist of 10. Describing Ben Jelloun's book as "a masterpiece among novels", the judges praised its "searing simplicity, beauty" and "clarity of language".
Other shortlisted novels included The Book of Illusions, by Paul Auster, The White Family, by Maggie Gee, and House of Day, House of Night by Olga Tokarczuk. The judging panel included award-winning novelist Anita Desai, broadcaster John Quinn and Norwegian poet Knut Odegard."
Friday, June 18, 2004
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