CROSSING BORDERS. EVENING WITH JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
THURSDAY | 11 NOVEMBER - 18.00
Writer Jonas Hassen Khemiri (Sweden) in conversation with literary scholar and Scandinavianist Ieva Steponavičiūtė
The event is free of charge; to watch please visit the website of the Literary Festival www.vilniauslapai.lt or its Facebook page
Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Author of five novels, six plays, and a collection of plays, essays, and short stories. Currently living with his family in New York. His first novel, One Eye Red (Ett öga rött), received the Borås Tidning Award for Best Literary Debut Novel and became the bestselling paperback in Sweden of any category in 2004. Khemiri’s novels have been translated into over thirty languages. He is also a celebrated playwright, whose six plays have been performed by over hundred international companies on stages from Stockholm to Berlin to New York to London.
More about the author: http://www.khemiri.se/en/