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22 June 2004
22 June 2004French-Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun recently won the $120,000 IMPAC Dublin literary award for his novel, This Blinding Absence of Light, the story of a Moroccan political prisoner who maintains his sanity by memorizing the Quran. BBC, AP, Reuters, and much of American and European press neglect the novel's Islamic themes.
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