Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Jonas Hassen Khemiri is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of essays and short stories. His work has been translated into more than thirty-five languages and his plays are performed worldwide. He received the Village Voice Obie Award for his debut play Invasion! and has been a finalist for the August Prize, Sweden’s most prestigious national book award, three times, winning it once for his novel Everything I Don’t Remember. His novel The Family Clause was a finalist for the National Book Award and won France’s Prix Médicis Étranger. The Sisters, his first book written in English, was published by FSG in 2025 and was named one of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year and longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction. A former Cullman Fellow at the New York Public Library, Khemiri now teaches in the MFA program at NYU.

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