A reading by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, made possible by the Kaplan Family Writer in Residence Series.
Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of his plays, essays, and short stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages and his plays have been performed by more than a hundred international companies.
Khemiri received The Village Voice Obie Award for his first play Invasion! and in 2015 his novel Everything I Don't Remember, received the August Prize, awarded to the best Swedish book of the year.
In 2017 Khemiri became the first Swedish writer to have a short story published in The New Yorker and in 2020 his novel The Family Clause (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Prix Médicis Étranger, France’s highest literary honor for translated fiction.
https://www.khemiri.se/en/