Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Jonas Hassen Khemiri’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages. His latest novel The Family Clause (FSG) was a finalist for the National Book Award.

Biography

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 latest 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.

Khemiri moved to New York for a Cullman Fellowship at the New York Public Library. He is currently teaching in the creative writing program at NYU and was the Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Faculty at Bennington for Spring 2023.