Aleksandar Hemon
| Aleksandar Hemon | |
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| Born |
September 9, 1964 Sarajevo, SFR Yugoslavia |
| Occupation | Short story writer, novelist and columnist |
| Nationality | Bosnian-American |
| Alma mater | University of Sarajevo, Northwestern University |
| Period | 2000–present |
| Literary movement | Postmodernism |
| Notable works | The Lazarus Project (2008) |
| Website | |
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Aleksandar Hemon (born September 9, 1964) is a Bosnian-born American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. His best known novels are Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008).
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.
Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia, to a father of partial Ukrainian and Bosnian descent and a Bosnian mother. Hemon's great-grandfather, Teodor Hemon, came to Bosnia from Western Ukraine prior to World War I, when both countries were a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo and was a published writer in former Yugoslavia by the time he was 26.
Since 1992 he has lived in the United States, where he found himself as a tourist and became stranded at the outbreak of the war in Bosnia. In the U.S. he worked as a Greenpeace canvasser, sandwich assembly-line worker, bike messenger, graduate student in English literature, bookstore salesperson, and ESL teacher.
He is the winner of a MacArthur Foundation grant.
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