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Aleksandar Hemon is the author of the short story collection Love & Obstacles; National Book Award finalist The Lazarus Project; The Question of Bruno; and Nowhere Man, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Born in Sarajevo, Hemon visited Chicago in 1992, intending to stay for a matter of months. While he was there, his birthplace came under siege, and he was unable to return home. Hemon wrote his first story in English in 1995. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004. He lives in Chicago with his wife and daughter.

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Aleksandar Hemon Wins the PEN/WG Sebald Award for a Fiction Writer in Mid-Career
PEN American Center

"Worldview's Jerome McDonnell Speaks with Aleksander Hemon About Life in Bosnia"
WBEZ's Worldview

"The Aquarium: A Child’s Isolating Illness"
The New Yorker

"How Ratko Mladic’s Evil Dream Lives On"
Bloomberg.com

"Aleksandar Hemon Wins St. Francis College Literary Prize"
The Brooklyn Eagle

“Living With Music: Aleksandar Hemon”
The New York Times

"The Postmodern Me"
The New York Times Sunday Book Review

Review of Love and Obstacles
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“New annual anthology to promote European literature”
Bookseller.com

"Twice-Told Tales: Displaced in America"
The New York Times

"The Unforgotten"
The New Yorker

"Writer Aleksandar Hemon resists labels"
Los Angeles Times

"Tales From the Windy City"
The Wall Street Journal

"Szmura's Room"
The New Yorker

"Raising the Dead"
The New York Times

"The Top Ten Books"
New York magazine

“The Evolution of Aleksandar Hemon”
The Stranger

“The Exchange: Aleksandar Hemon"
The New Yorker

“Love and Obstacles: Stories by Aleksandar Hemon”
Los Angeles Times

“The Magic Mountain”
The New Yorker