Swede of the week: A writer who dared a minister to get in his skin
A writer who dared a minister to get in his skin
An open letter by Swedish author Jonas Hassen Khemiri challenging Justice Minister Beatrice Ask to "change skin" with him has sparked an unprecedented response in an ongoing debate about race and ethnicity, making him our pick for Swede of the Week.
Until Wednesday, the 34-year-old Khemiri was probably best known for his 2003 debut novel One Eye Red (Ett öga rott), which went on to be a best seller and earned the young author the the Borås Tidning award for best literary debut.
Since then, he's written additional award-winning novels and several plays, a number of which have been translated to other languages and produced on stages abroad, and been hailed of one of Sweden's most talented young writers.
However, none of Khemiri's works has arguably generated as much immediate and wide-ranging response as the roughly 2,000 words he penned for Wednesday's edition of the Dagens Nyheter (DN) newspaper.
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