BIOGRAPHY

Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in Sweden in 1978, is the author of three novels and six plays. His first novel, One Eye Red, received the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut. His second novel, Montecore, (published by Knopf in 2011) won several literary awards including the Swedish Radio Award for best novel of the year. Khemiri’s work have been translated into more than fifteen languages and his plays have been performed by over 40 international companies. In 2011 Invasion! premiered in New York and Khemiri was awarded a Village Voice Obie Award for playwriting.

Literary awards:

Borås Prize for best Swedish Literary Debut (2004)

Per Olov Enquist Prize for young authors facing the future (2006)
VI Magazine Literary Prize (2006)
Colombine scholarship (2006)
Tidningen CITY’s literary award (2006)
Swedish Radio’s Novel Prize (2006)
The Bellman Award (2007)
Swedish Radio’s Prize for best Swedish Short Story (2008)
Shortlisted for the August Prize (2006)

HEDDA Award for best play (Norway, 2010)

John Fante Literary Prize (Italy, 2010)

OBIE Award for playwriting (US, 2011) 

Ibsen Prize (Norway, 2011)

Henning Mankell scholarship (2011) 

International residencies:
Ledig House, Hudson, New York (2004)
International Residency for Emerging Playwrights at Royal Court, London (2006)
Berliner Künstlerprogramm, DAAD, Berlin (2009)

Ledig House, Hudson, New York (2011)