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War Dogs

Aleksandar Hemon

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

Essays & Memoir
The Online Edition
2nd February 2012
Essays & Memoir
The Online Edition
2nd February 2012

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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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.’

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Subject+Object:
A shining monument of loss

Aleksandar Hemon

‘My grandmother was not my grandmother.’

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God and Fiction

Aleksandar Hemon & Stuart Dybek

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

In Conversation | The Online Edition

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’.

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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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Are We Related?

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My mother and I are going shopping, as we have done all our lives. ‘Now...

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