Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksander Hemon was born in Sarajevo in 1964. He lives in Chicago and writes fiction in English and a column in Bosnian for the Sarajevo magazine Dani. His first book The Question of Bruno was published in 2000 by Picado in the UK and Doubleday in the US.
Aleksandar Hemon on Granta.com
In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation | The Online Edition
God and Fiction
Aleksandar Hemon & Stuart Dybek
‘Do writers of fiction have to create a cosmology in order to exist?’
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Essays & Memoir
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If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder
Aleksandar Hemon
‘I came to this fine country from Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, in the winter of 1992, a couple of months before the war started.’
FictionFiction
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Fiction
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Exchange of Pleasant Words
Aleksandar Hemon
‘What year was it? We have chosen to believe it was 1811’.
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Essays & Memoir
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Subject+Object:
A shining monument of loss
Aleksandar Hemon
‘My grandmother was not my grandmother.’
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Fiction
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Pronek in History
Aleksandar Hemon
‘This happened on a night train to Linz: swarthy-faced robbers startle Adolf and strip his felt jacket halfway down his arms so he cannot move them (their long nails scratching him just above his elbow)’.