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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 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?’

Essays & Memoir|The Online Editionpadlock
Essays & Memoir|The Online Editionpadlock

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.’

Fiction|The Online Editionpadlock
Fiction|The Online Editionpadlock

Exchange of Pleasant Words

Aleksandar Hemon

‘What year was it? We have chosen to believe it was 1811’.

Essays & Memoir|The Online Editionpadlock
Essays & Memoir|The Online Editionpadlock

Subject+Object:
A shining monument of loss

Aleksandar Hemon

‘My grandmother was not my grandmother.’

Fiction|The Online Editionpadlock
Fiction|The Online Editionpadlock

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)’.

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