2023 Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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Wednesday, May 17 2023, 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM, Tishman Lecture Hall
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Literature Evenings—Spring 2023

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC |  is the author of six novels, seven plays, and a collection of 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 is the Ben Belitt Distinguished Visiting Faculty at ¿­ÐýÃŹÙÍø College for Spring 2023.