Aleksandar Hemon Biography, Books, and Similar Authors
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The Lazarus Project is Aleksandar Hemon's third work of fiction, but the first intended as a novel. In it he tackles some tough questions about the life of immigrants in the US. In this interview he discusses what led him to this story, and the resources he drew on to write it.
This is your third work of fiction, but the first one that was conceived and intended as a novel. Was this simply a natural progression in your work, or was it a challenge that you consciously set for yourself?
Well, Nowhere Man was elected a novel. On the cover of the Nowhere Man hardback there was no description of the book - I talked my editor into omitting it. The book was neither a novel nor a short story collection. But then everyone reviewed it as a novel and it came out in paperback as a novel and I guess it is a novel now.
As for The Lazarus Project, for the longest time I called it simply &#;the big book.&#; I could not, and would not, refer to it as &#;a novel&#; until I submitted it to my editor, so it became something I could describe as a novel very late in its production. It is pretty weird, I think, to set out
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and 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, which will be published by Riverhead Books on May 14, Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in , intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.
Aleksandar Hemon. “Bio.” Accessed July 21,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.
- Born
- Sep 9,
Sarajevo - Also known as
- Spouses
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ukraine
- Profession
- Education
- Master of Arts, Northwestern University
English Literature
( - ) - University of Sarajevo
- Master of Arts, Northwestern University
- Lived in
- Sarajevo
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and 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, which will be published by Riverhead Books on May 14, Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in , intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, Sarajevo came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.
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