A-DLI 180622 – JUNE 18, 2004 – DUBLIN : Moroccan Tahar Ben Jelloun, author of “This Blinding Absence of Light”, holds his trophy at City Hall in Dublin, Thursday June 17, 2004, where he was announced as the winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2004, the the world’s richest literary prize for a single work of fiction published in English, with a prize of 100,000 euro (US$ 120,000). AP/PTI