Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a novelist and playwright. His novels include One Eye Red (Winner of the Borås Tidning Award for Best Literary Debut Novel), Montecore: The Silence of the Tiger (Winner of the P.O. Enquist Literary Prize and Swedish Radio’s Award for Best Novel), Everything I Don’t Remember. His plays include Invasion! (Winner of the Village Voice Obie Award), God Times Five, The Hundred We Are (Winner of the Hedda Award for best play in Norway) and  ≈[Almost Equal To].

His latest novel, Everything I Don’t Remember, won Sweden’s most prestigious literary prize: The August Award.