Aleksandar Hemon

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born

January 01, 1964

gender

male

place of birth

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

genre

Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

influences

Vladimir Nabokov

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Hemon graduated from the University of Sarajevo with a degree in literature in 1990. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1992 and found that he was unable to write in Bosnian and spoke little English.

In 1995, he started writing works in English and managed to showcase his work in prestigious magazines such as the New Yorker and Esquire. Finally in 2000, he published his first book of short stories (that also featured a novella), The Question of Bruno. His first novel was titled Nowhere Man which followed in 2002. Jozef Pronek, a character that appeared in The Question of Bruno, is a featured character of Nowhere Man.

His latest novel is The Lazarus Project.

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avg rating: 3.64 | 2,706 ratings | 606 reviews | 10 distinct works | 14 fans

	The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon avg rating 3.58 — 938 ratings — published 2008 6 editions	my rating:
	The Book of Other People by Zadie Smith, David Mitchell (Contributor), George Saunders (Contributor), Colm Tóibín (Contributor), Aleksandar Hemon (Contributor), Nick Hornby (Contributor), Hari Kunzru (Contributor), Toby Litt (Contributor) avg rating 3.40 — 720 ratings — published 2007 6 editions	my rating:
	Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon avg rating 3.76 — 307 ratings — published 2002 11 editions	my rating:
	The Question of Bruno: Stories by Aleksandar Hemon avg rating 4.08 — 261 ratings — published 2000 8 editions	my rating:
	The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories by Ben Marcus (Editor), George Saunders (Contributor), Aleksandar Hemon (Contributor), William Gay (Contributor), Gary Lutz (Contributor), Kate Braverman (Contributor), Christine Schutt (Goodreads author) (Contributor), Jhumpa Lahiri (Contributor) more... Stephen Dixon (Contributor), Diane Williams (Contributor), Joanna Scott (Contributor), Brian Evenson (Contributor), Wells Tower (Contributor), Mary Gaitskill (Contributor), Deborah Eisenberg (Contributor), David Foster Wallace (Contributor), Ann Cumins (Contributor), Matthew Derby (Contributor), Anne Carson (Contributor), Dawn Raffel (Contributor), Padgett Powell (Contributor), Joe Wenderoth (Contributor), Rick Bass (Contributor), A. M. Homes (Contributor), Mark Richard (Contributor), Aimee Bender (Contributor), Anthony Doerr(Goodreads author) (Contributor), Sam Lipsyte (Contributor), Lydia Davis (Contributor), Mary Caponegro (Contributor) [close] avg rating 3.93 — 202 ratings — published 2004	my rating:
	Love and Obstacles by Aleksandar Hemon avg rating 3.90 — 108 ratings — published 2009 4 editions	my rating:
	Exchange of Pleasant Words & A Coin by Aleksandar Hemon avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 2006	my rating:
	De l'esprit chez les abrutis by Aleksandar Hemon avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2003 3 editions	my rating:
	Best European Fiction 2010 by Aleksandar Hemon avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2010	my rating:
	The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon, Chicago Historical Society (Photographer), Velibor Bozovic (Photographer) avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2008	my rating:

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quotes by Aleksandar Hemon

"Your memories become fantasies if they are not shared,
and your life in all its triviality becomes a legend."
— Aleksandar Hemon (Nowhere Man)

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"All the lives I could live, all the people I will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. That is all that the world is."
— Aleksandar Hemon (The Lazarus Project)

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""Hi," she said, in a whispery voice, and nodded as if to confirm that she really meant it."
— Aleksandar Hemon (Nowhere Man)

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