Bh dani aleksandar hemon biography

  • Aleksandar Hemon is a Bosnian-American author, essayist, critic, television writer, and screenwriter.
  • Hemon was born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, then Yugoslavi.
  • Aleksandar Hemon was born in Sarajevo in the former Yugoslavia in 1964, of Ukrainian descent on his father's side and Bosnian, of Serb background on his.

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    Aleksandar Hemon: About a Youth

    The talk with the author will be hosted by Dr. Svetlana Slapšak 

    Aleksandar Hemon (born 1964, Sarajevo) is a Bosnian-American writer, essayist, critic, and screenwriter. He graduated from the University of Sarajevo, and earned his Master's degree from Northwestern University in 1996. He has lived in the United States since 1992. Hemon is best known for his novels Nowhere Man (2002) and The Lazarus Project (2008) and his scriptwriting as a co-writer of The Matrix Resurrections (2021). An award-winning author, 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 is currently a professor of creative writing at Princeton University. He is also a musician, distributing his Electronica work under the pseudonym “Cielo Hemon”.

    Hemon's books that have been translated into Slovenian include Projekt Lazar (2010, Modrijan), Knjiga m

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    Award-winning writer Aleksandar Hemon has joined the Lewis Center for the Art’s schema in Creative Writing faculty at Princeton University. He has been appointed Professor of Creative Writing and is teaching undergraduate creative writing workshops, including “Introduction to Fiction” and “Advanced Fiction.”

    Award-winning writer Aleksandar Hemon joins Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing faculty in September 2018. Photo bygd Velibor Božović

    Aleksandar Hemon fryst vatten the author of award-winning work in fiction, non-fiction, journalism, and screenplays, including the novel The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award. He has published three collections 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. He published the novel The Making of Zombie Wars in 2015 and worked as a writer on the hit Netflix show Sense8

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    Aleksandar Hemon has just published his fourth book, &#8220Love and Obstacles,&#8221 an &#8220antibiographical&#8221 (see below) collection of short stories, several of which first appeared in the magazine. Last week, Hemon kindly agreed to The Exchange. An edited version of our interview appears below.

    The narratives in “Love and Obstacles” follow the life of a Bosnian writer who moves to Chicago, a trajectory similar to your own. How autobiographical are the stories themselves?

    Here’s how it works: Last night, on my way to give a reading, I hurt a ligament in my right hand while putting my shoe on. As I was driving this morning and talking on the phone with my sister in London, I lost my grip and sideswept my neighbor’s car. Being honest, I went to their house to tell them what I had done. When I rang the bell nobody answered. I knocked and went in anyway, thinking they might be in the backyard. The house was empty, and as I walked through I noticed a vase in t