Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon (born September 9, 1964 in Sarajevo , Yugoslavia ) is a Bosnian-American writer.
Life
Hemon came to the USA in 1992 as a scholarship holder. After the outbreak of the Bosnian War he was granted asylum there. He lives in Chicago and is married to an American. He writes in English.
There are often autobiographical elements in his works, for example his character Jozef Pronek, who appears in The Case with Bruno and Nowhere Man , is a US immigrant from Sarajevo in Chicago. In the novel Lazarus , in which the story of the Jewish immigrant Lazarus Averbuch, who was shot in Chicago in 1908, is reconstructed and who received the Premio Gregor von Rezzori in 2011 , Hemon's literary alter ego bears the name Vladimir Brik.
In 2004 he was a MacArthur Fellow .
Works (selection)
- The thing with Bruno . Stories (1999).
- Nowhere Man (2002), German: Nowhere Man , Knaus Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-73345-3 .
- The Lazarus Project (2008), German: Lazarus , Knaus Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8135-0329-6 .
- Love and Obstacles Stories (2009), German: Love and Obstacles , Erzählungen, Knaus Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-8135-0330-2 .
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The Book of my Lives (2013)
- The book of my life . Translation by Matthias Fienbork. Knaus Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-8135-0491-0 .
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The Making of Zombie Wars . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015.
- Zombie Wars . Translation André Mumat. Knaus Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8135-0697-6 .
- My Parents: An Introduction / This Does Not Belong to You , 2019.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Aleksandar Hemon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Aleksandar Hemon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Aleksandar Hemon on hkw.de
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hemon, Aleksandar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bosnian-American writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 9, 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sarajevo |