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Early life Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavia, to a father of partial Ukrainian descent and a Bosnian Serb 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. Biography Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo and was a published writer ...
May 7, 2024 · Aleksandar Hemon (born September 9, 1964, Sarajevo, Yugoslavia [now in Bosnia and Herzegovina]) is a Bosnian American writer known for his short stories and novels that explore issues of exile, identity, and home through characters drawn from Hemon’s own experience as an immigrant.
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Jul 18, 2011 · One Child’s Life. July 18, 2011. I have never read anything as harrowing as Aleksandar Hemon’s account of his baby’s death (“The Aquarium,” June 13th & 20th). It is often said that losing a...
Jun 21, 2019 · Hemon is the recipient of a Guggenheim Award, a MacArthur 'genius' grant and the PEN/W.G. Sebald Award. He spoke to Eleanor Wachtel from Princeton, N.J., where he teaches creative writing. Stories ...
978-0-374-11573-9. The Book of My Lives is the first book of nonfiction by the Bosnian-American novelist Aleksandar Hemon. [1] It's a collection of nonfiction pieces about Hemon's childhood in Sarajevo and his adult life in Chicago.
Aleksandar Hemon Biography. Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man, which was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Love and Obstacles.
In 1995, he started writing works in English and managed to showcase his work in prestigious magazines such as the New Yorker and Esquire. He is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and three books of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man ...
