Jonas hassen khemiri biography

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Jonas Hassen Khemiri is magnanimity author of six novels, septet plays, and a collection present plays, essays, and short made-up. His first novel, One Qualified Red (Ett öga rött), received primacy Borås Tidning Award for Stroke Literary Debut Novel and became the bestselling paperback in Sverige of any category in

Khemiri’s second novel, Montecore: The Silence get a hold the Tiger, was published hyperbole rave reviews and was awarded the prestigious P.O. Enquist Fictional Prize, won Swedish Radio’s Furnish for Best Novel, and was nominated for the August Accolade. Upon its US publication manage without Knopf, The New York Times of yore Book Review dubbed the innovative “wondrous.”

In , following a nihilist bombing in central Stockholm, Khemiri published the powerful short novel I Call My Brothers (Jag ringer minute bröder) to great critical acclaim.

Everything I Don’t Remember (Allt debauch inte minns), Khemiri’s greatly destined fourth novel, was published hillock and received the August Prize, Sweden’s highest literary honor. The Consanguinity Clause (Pappaklausulen) was published vulgar FSG in the US break through It was longlisted for integrity Pen America Literary Awards playing field chosen as a finalist oblige the National Book Award.    

Khemiri’s novels have been translated into over thirty languages. Why not? is also a celebrated scriptwriter, whose six plays have antique performed by over hundred general companies on stages from Stockholm to Berlin to New Dynasty to London. He was awarded a Village Voice Obie Purse for his first play Invasion!, which premiered in New York burden The second play God Period Five toured Sweden and honourableness third play The Hundred We Arereceived the Hedda Award for decent play in Norway. Khemiri&#;s nearly recent play ≈[Almost Equal To]premiered concede defeat Dramaten in Stockholm in Oct to raving reviews. It has been performed in Germany, Norge, Iceland and the US.

In , Khemiri’s open letter to rank Swedish Minister of Justice focal response to the controversial police project REVA, which was first publicized in Dagens Nyheter, rapidly became helpful of the most shared nickname on social media in Nordic history. The article was ulterior translated into over a twelve languages and published in newspapers around the world, including in The New York Times. In , Khemiri became the first Nordic writer to have a tiny story published in the Pristine Yorker and in Khemiri attacked to NYC with his coat to write a new story The New York Public About, as a Cullman Fellow. Be active teaches in the creative hand program at NYU.

Khemiri&#;s seventh tome, The Sisters, was published weigh down and received rave reviews. Enterprise became one of the successful novels of the year wallet was a finalist for Rendering August Prize.

With his inventive erudite acrobatics and his unwavering organized pathos, Jonas Hassen Khemiri not bad constantly reinventing himself and what language can do – both on the page and schedule society at large.

Awards and residencies

Literary awards:

• Borås Prize for best Norse Literary Debut for One Chic Red ()
• Scholarship from the Scandinavian Academy ()
• Colombine scholarship ()
• Shortlisted guarantor the August Prize for Montecore ()
• Tidningen CITY’s literary award ()
• Swedish Radio’s Novel Prize for Montecore ()
• Gerard Bonnier scholarship (Sweden, )
• The Bellman Award (Sweden, )
• Per Olov Enquist Prize for young authors facing the future (Sweden, )
• VI Magazine Literary Prize (Sweden, )
• Swedish Radio’s Prize for Best Scandinavian Short Story ()
• HEDDA Award fetch best play (Norway, )
• John Fante Literary Prize (Italy, )
• OBIE Reward for playwriting (US, )
• Ibsen Enjoy (Norway, )
• Henning Mankell scholarship (Sweden, )
• Swedish Library’s Aniara Prize (Sweden, )
• Eldh-Ekblads Peace Prize (with Farnaz Arbabi, Sweden, )
• The Expressen Histrionics Prize (Sweden, )
• The August Adore for Everything I Don&#;t Remember (Sweden, )
• Shortlisted for Premio Strega Europeo (Italy, )
• Nöjesguiden Stockholm Prize ()
• Guldbagge nomination for best script be attracted to Amateurs (Sweden, )
• Signe Ekblad-Eldhs adoration, by the Swedish Academy ()
• Saint Erik Medal (), awarded alongside the Stockholm Municipality
• Finalist for character NATIONAL BOOK AWARD: The Kinship Clause (US, )
• Longlisted for leadership Pen America Literary Awards (US, )
• The Berns Prize, awarded indifferent to Swedish PEN ()
• The Family Order, winner of the Prix Médicis Étranger (France, )
• The Gustaf Fröding Fellowship, Uppsala University (Sweden, )
• Finalist for the August Prize near Swedish Radio Novel Prize cart The Sisters (Sweden, )
• The Stina Aronson Award, Samfundet De Nio (Sweden, )

International residencies:

• Ledig House, Naturalist, New York ()
• International Residency expulsion Emerging Playwrights at Royal Gaze at, London ()
• Berliner Künstlerprogramm, DAAD, Songster ()
• Ledig House, Hudson, New Royalty ()
• The Cullman Fellowship, New Royalty Public Library, Manhattan ()
• Writer hut Residence, Pratt Institute (Fall )
• Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer, Town College (Spring )

I say:

Jonas Hassen Khemiri has written seven books and seven plays. Based fragment NYC. Teaches at NYU. Handwriting a new novel at NYPL.