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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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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.
Born. in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. September 09, 1964. Website. http://www.aleksandarhemon.com/ Genre. Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction. Influences. Vladimir Nabokov, Kafka, Danilo Kiš. ...more. edit data. Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature in 1990.
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Jul 10, 2023 · By Aleksandar Hemon. Buy this book. Now, in The World and All That It Holds —Hemon’s first novel since 2015, and his biggest in size and historical sweep—he turns to the earlier tragedy. The ...
Jan 21, 2023 · NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Aleksandar Hemon about his new novel "The World And All That It Holds," a tale of war and love that spans nearly a century.
Oct 12, 2023 · By Aleksander Hemon. October 12, 2023. Since the early nineties and the war in Bosnia, my parents have lived in Canada, while I’ve lived in the United States. When I visit them with my family, we stay only for a few days. The night before our departure, my father might sit down on the sofa in the living room (a Western showing on TV), and say ...
