Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksander Hemon is a Bosnian writer, critic and essayist. His books include Nowhere Man, The Lazarus Project and The Making of Zombie Wars.

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War Dogs

Aleksandar Hemon

‘He never bothered the refugees, never barked at those miserable people.’

God and Fiction

Aleksandar Hemon & Stuart Dybek

‘Do writers of fiction have to create a cosmology in order to exist?’

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.’

Writing Chicago

Aleksandar Hemon & Stuart Dybek

Aleksandar Hemon and Stuart Dybek on the energy and inspiration of Chicago, its exhilirating ‘incompleteness’, and the ‘unique perspectives of seeing the city’.

Exchange of Pleasant Words

Aleksandar Hemon

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

Subject+Object:
A shining monument of loss

Aleksandar Hemon

‘My grandmother was not my grandmother.’

Pronek in History

‘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)’.

Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon on Granta.com

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War Dogs

Aleksandar Hemon

In Conversation | Issue 118

In Conversation | Issue 118

God and Fiction

Aleksandar Hemon & Stuart Dybek

Essays & Memoir | Issue 108

Essays & Memoir | Issue 108

If God Existed, He’d Be a Solid Midfielder

Aleksandar Hemon

In Conversation | Issue 108

In Conversation | Issue 108

Writing Chicago

Aleksandar Hemon & Stuart Dybek

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Exchange of Pleasant Words

Aleksandar Hemon

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Subject+Object: A shining monument of loss

Aleksandar Hemon

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Pronek in History

Aleksandar Hemon

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 118

Essays & Memoir | Issue 118

Fiction | Issue 108

Fiction | Issue 108

Essays & Memoir | Issue 103

Essays & Memoir | Issue 103

Subject+Object:
A shining monument of loss

Fiction | Issue 103

Fiction | Issue 103