Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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 [https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374134327/thefamilyclause 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.
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