Jonas Hassen Khemiri
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri in August 2014
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27 December 1978 , Sweden |
| Period | 2003– |
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Jonas Hassen Khemiri (born 27 December 1978 in ) is an award-winning Swedish novelist and playwright. He has been named one of the most important Swedish writers of his generation.
Khemiri was a student at Stockholm School of Economics (SSE) from the fall semester of 1999, where he pursued the master's program in business administration.
Khemiri's debut novel, Ett öga rött (One Eye Red), was published in 2003. It was met with rave reviews from critics, sold over 200,000 copies in Sweden and became the best-selling novel of any category in 2004.
Khemiri's second novel, Montecore: en unik tiger (Montecore - The Silence of the Tiger), received Sveriges Radio's Novel Prize (Sveriges Radios Romanpris) for Best Swedish Novel of 2007.
Khemiri's first play, Invasion!, was written for the . It was chosen for the 2007 Swedish Theater Biennial and has been performed in France, Germany, the UK, and Norway. Khemiri has also written the plays God Times Five for Riksteatern and We Who Are Hundred, which opened at Gothenburg City Theatre in 2009 and won the Hedda Award, Norway's top theatrical award, for the best play of 2010.
Khemiri's novels have been translated into German, French, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Dutch, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian. Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger was published by Knopf in the US in 2011.
In 2013, Khemiri wrote an open letter to Sweden's Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask in response to a controversial immigration program, REVA. The letter, titled "Dear Beatrice Ask", was published in Sweden's biggest daily paper, Dagens Nyheter and became a social media phenomenon, with more than 120 000 likes on Facebook and more than half a million clicks on the article online. The letter was written as part of a debate about racial profiling in Sweden.
Khemiri's father hails from Tunisia and his mother is Swedish. His younger brother is actor Hamadi Khemiri.
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