Abdelmajid Benjelloun (Arabic: عبد المجيد بن جلون, romanized: ʿAbd al-Majīd bin Jallūn; 1919–1981) was a Moroccan novelist, journalist and ambassador.
Benjelloun was politically active in the Moroccan independence movement, this led to him being exiled to Egypt for over 15 years.
From this date onwards he can be labelled an influential member of Morocco's political and intellectual elite, as he entered the service of the foreign department, serving as ambassador to Pakistan.
He became editor of the daily al- 'Alama in addition published a rich amount of essays, short stories and poems.
This story is unique for Moroccan literature as for Benjelloun the western ideas are familiar to the child, but the Arab country is unknown.