Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Jonas Hassen Khemiri | |
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Khemiri in 2019 | |
| Born | 27 December 1978 Stockholm, Sweden |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Period | 2003–present |
| Notable works | Ett öga rött (2003) Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger (2006) I Call My Brothers (2012) Everything I Don't Remember (2015) |
| Notable awards | Village Voice Obie Award (2011) August Prize (2015) Prix Médicis étranger (2021) |
| Website | |
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri (born 27 December 1978) is a Swedish writer. He is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of essays, short stories and plays. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages. He has received the August Prize for fiction and a Village Voice Obie Award for best script. In 2017 he became the first Swedish writer to have a short story published in The New Yorker. Khemiri's novel The Family Clause (FSG) was awarded the French Prix Médicis and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Khemiri moved to New York in 2021 for a Cullman Fellowship at The New York Public Library and currently teaches in the Creative Writing program at NYU. In 2023 he was a Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer at Bennington College.