Aleksandar Hemon
Novelist, Author
1964 –
Who is Aleksandar Hemon?
Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant. He has written five books: The Book of My Lives; Love and Obstacles: Stories; The Lazarus Project: A Novel, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Awards, and was named as a New York Times Notable Book and New York magazine's No. 1 Book of the Year; Nowhere Man, also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and The Question of Bruno: Stories. He frequently publishes in The New Yorker, and has also written for Esquire, The Paris Review, the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, and the Sarajevo magazine BH Dani.
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- Born
- Sep 9, 1964
Sarajevo - Also known as
- Aleksander Hemon
- Spouses
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Bosnian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ukraine
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Northwestern University
English Literature
( - 1995) - University of Sarajevo
- Master of Arts, Northwestern University
- Lived in
- Sarajevo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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