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Jonas Hassen Khemiri (born 27 December 1978 in Stockholm) is an award-winning Swedish novelist and playwright. He has been named one of the most important Swedish writers of his generation.〔("Inside Sweden Meets Jonas Hassen Khemiri" ), Radio Sweden 29 August 2008〕 ==Career== 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.〔("Ett öga rött belönad med pocketpris" ), ''Helsingborgs Dagblad'' 7 March 2005 〕 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.〔Tsemaye Opubor Hambraeus, ("Khemiri brings contemporary Sweden to new audiences" ), Sweden.se, 14 November 2008.〕〔Olle Sjöberg, ("SR:s romanpris till Khemiri: Jonas Hassen Khemiri får Sveriges Radios romanpris 2007 för sin bok 'Montecore'" ), ''Dagens Nyheter'' 1 March 2007 〕 Khemiri's first play, ''Invasion!'', was written for the Stockholm City Theatre. It was chosen for the 2007 Swedish Theater Biennial and has been performed in France, Germany, the UK, and Norway.〔(Archiv 2008 ), ''Theater Heute'' 〕 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.〔(Heddaprisen 2010 ), NTO Aktuelt, Norsk Teater- og Orkesterforening 〕 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.〔〔Trans. Rachel Willson-Broyles, 2011, ISBN 978-0-307-27095-5〕 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〔Jonas Hassen Khemiri: (Bästa Beatrice Ask ) Dagens Nyheter, 13 March, 2013 〕 and became a social media phenomenon, with more than 120 000 likes on Facebook〔David Landes: (A writer who dared a minister to get in his skin ) The Local, 14 March, 2013〕 and more than half a million clicks on the article online.〔Björn Wiman: (Björn Wiman: Kom ihåg Khemiris ord inför valet ) Dagens Nyheter, 15 March, 2013 〕 The letter was written as part of a debate about racial profiling in Sweden. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonas Hassen Khemiri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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